1 debhelper (7.4.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:18:35 -0400
8 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
11 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
12 (It was only run once due to logging.)
13 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
14 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
15 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
16 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
17 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
18 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
19 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
20 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
21 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
22 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
26 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
30 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
33 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
34 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
38 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
41 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
42 flag with arch all/any packages.
43 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
44 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
45 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
46 situation. Closes: #540794
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
50 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
54 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
55 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
56 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
57 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
58 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
61 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
62 the default. Closes: #538201
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
67 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
71 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
72 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
73 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
74 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
75 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
77 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
78 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
79 * Above Closes: #491117
80 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
85 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
91 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
92 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
93 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
97 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
100 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
101 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
102 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
103 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
104 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
109 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
112 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
113 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
117 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
119 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
123 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
125 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
126 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
128 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
129 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
130 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
134 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
136 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
137 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
141 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
147 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
149 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
150 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
151 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
156 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
158 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
162 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
165 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
166 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
167 created by using `python' first during build and install.
169 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
174 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
176 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
180 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
182 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
183 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
187 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
189 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
193 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
195 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
199 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
201 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
202 contributed by Modestas Vainius
203 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
204 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
205 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
206 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
207 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
208 that support it. Closes: #480577
209 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
210 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
211 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
213 - Adds support for cmake.
214 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
215 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
217 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
219 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
220 that use them. The options are:
221 --sourcedir, --destdir
222 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
223 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
224 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
225 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
226 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
230 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
236 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
239 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
240 default. Closes: #537140
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
244 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
247 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
248 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
252 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
255 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
259 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
262 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
266 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
269 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
271 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
272 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
273 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
277 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
280 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
281 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
282 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
286 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
289 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
290 warning or deprecation message.
291 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
292 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
293 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
294 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
295 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
296 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
297 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
298 Closes: #534639, #357434
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
302 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
308 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
311 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
312 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
313 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
314 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
316 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
317 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
318 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
322 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
328 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
335 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
338 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
342 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
346 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
347 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
349 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
350 file support. Closes: #494914
351 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
355 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
358 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
359 parameters. Closes: #527256
360 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
361 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
362 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
366 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
370 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
371 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
372 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
376 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
379 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
380 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
381 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
385 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
388 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
389 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
391 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
392 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
393 by triggers). Closes: #521181
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
397 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
401 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
405 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
408 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
409 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
410 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
411 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
416 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
422 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
425 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
426 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
427 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
428 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
429 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
431 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
432 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
433 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
434 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
435 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
436 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
440 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
443 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
444 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
445 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
446 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
447 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
449 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
453 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
455 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
459 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
461 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
462 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
463 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
464 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
465 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
466 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
467 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
468 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
469 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
470 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
471 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
475 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
477 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
478 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
480 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
481 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
482 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
483 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
485 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
486 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
490 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
492 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
493 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
494 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
495 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
496 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
497 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
498 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
500 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
501 that uses them. Affected options are:
502 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
503 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
504 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
505 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
506 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
507 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
508 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
509 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
510 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
511 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
512 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
513 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
517 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
524 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
530 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
532 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
533 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
535 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
536 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
537 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
538 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
539 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
541 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
543 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
544 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
545 rules (see bug #509756).
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
549 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
555 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
556 * Typo. Closes: #493062
557 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
558 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
562 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
565 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
566 empty files. Closes: #490937
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
570 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
576 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
583 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
586 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
587 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
588 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
589 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
594 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
596 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
597 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
598 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
599 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
603 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
606 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
607 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
608 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
609 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
610 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
614 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
621 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
623 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
624 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
625 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
626 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
627 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
628 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
629 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
630 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
631 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
632 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
636 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
639 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
640 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
641 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
642 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
644 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
645 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
646 breaking backwards compatability.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
650 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
653 message in perl 5.10.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
657 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
663 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Convert copyright file to new format.
666 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
670 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
673 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
677 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
680 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
681 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
682 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
683 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
684 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
685 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
686 logging by dh_listpackages.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
690 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
693 run and there are no packages of that type.
694 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
695 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
696 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
697 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
699 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
700 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
704 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
706 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
707 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
708 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
712 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
715 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
716 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
718 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
719 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
720 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
721 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
722 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
723 planned but not yet implemented.)
724 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
725 if the Makefile has such a target.
726 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
727 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
728 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
729 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
730 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
731 but not yet implemented.)
732 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
733 recommended default, especially when using dh.
734 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
735 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
736 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
738 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
740 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
741 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
743 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
744 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
745 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
750 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
753 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
754 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
758 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
760 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
761 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
762 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
766 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
772 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
778 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
781 just those installed by the program.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
785 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
788 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
789 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
793 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
796 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
797 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
798 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
799 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
803 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
806 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
807 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
811 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
814 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
815 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
819 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
822 with policy. Closes: #461392
823 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
824 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
825 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
826 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
827 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
831 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
834 Closes: #460340, #460351
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
838 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
841 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
842 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
843 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
844 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
848 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
851 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
852 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
853 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
854 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
855 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
856 package build directory won't work.
857 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
858 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
859 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
860 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
861 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
862 mode. Closes: #459426
863 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
868 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
871 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
875 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
879 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
880 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
881 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
882 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
883 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
884 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
888 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
891 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
892 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
893 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
894 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
898 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
901 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
902 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
903 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
904 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
905 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
909 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
912 debian/package.triggers files.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
916 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
919 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
923 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
926 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
927 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
928 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
929 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
934 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
937 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
941 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
944 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
945 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
947 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
952 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
956 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
957 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
958 * Typo. Closes: #441272
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
962 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
969 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
976 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
979 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
981 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
982 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
983 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
985 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
986 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
987 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
991 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
994 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
995 * Update urls to web page.
996 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
998 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
999 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1003 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1006 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1007 - typo in alternatives call
1008 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1010 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1011 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1015 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1018 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1023 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1029 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1035 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1038 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1040 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1041 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1042 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1043 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1044 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1045 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1046 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1047 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1048 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1049 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1050 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1054 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1057 package install. Closes: #415717
1058 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1059 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1060 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1061 script and then remove the python files.
1062 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1063 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1064 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1065 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1066 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1067 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1068 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1069 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1070 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1071 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1072 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1073 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1074 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1078 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Correct typo in french translation
1084 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1085 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1087 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1089 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1090 Closes: #406921, #381940
1091 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1093 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1094 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1095 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1096 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1097 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1098 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1099 specified). Closes: #381851
1100 * Misc minor changes.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1104 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1111 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1112 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1116 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1122 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1123 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1126 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1127 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1129 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1130 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1131 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1132 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1136 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1139 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1142 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1146 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1152 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1158 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1159 a difficult situation.
1160 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1161 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1162 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1163 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1164 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1165 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1166 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1167 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1168 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1169 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1173 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Non-maintainer upload.
1176 * Update of dh_python
1177 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1178 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1180 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1181 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1182 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1183 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1184 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1186 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1188 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Non-maintainer upload.
1191 * Update of dh_python
1192 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1193 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1194 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1195 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1196 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1197 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1198 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1199 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1200 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1201 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1203 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1204 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1205 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1206 the not too-distant future).
1207 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1208 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1209 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1210 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1211 thus made the build fail.
1213 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1215 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Non-maintainer upload.
1218 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1220 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1222 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1225 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1226 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1227 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1228 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1229 package. Closes: #301424
1230 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1231 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1232 fonts). Closes: #372686
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1236 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1242 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1243 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1244 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1245 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1246 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1247 above, but already depends on that.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1251 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1254 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1255 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1256 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1257 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1258 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1262 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1268 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1274 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1275 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1279 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1282 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1286 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1290 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1291 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1292 new version (0.24.1).
1293 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1294 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1297 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1298 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1299 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1300 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1301 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1302 new directory on their own.
1303 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1304 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1308 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1311 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1312 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1313 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1314 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1318 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1321 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1322 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1323 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1324 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1325 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1329 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1335 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1339 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1340 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1344 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1345 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1349 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1351 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1352 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1354 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1355 ignored. Closes: #337664
1357 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1362 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1368 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1373 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1374 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1375 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1376 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1377 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1378 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1379 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1383 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1386 version. Closes: #350607
1387 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1388 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1389 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1390 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1394 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1397 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1398 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1399 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1403 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1410 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1416 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1419 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1423 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1426 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1427 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1428 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1429 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1430 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1431 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1435 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1438 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1439 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1444 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1447 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1451 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1454 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1458 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1461 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1462 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1463 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1464 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1465 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1466 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1470 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1474 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1475 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1476 link. Closes: #346405
1477 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1479 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1480 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1481 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1482 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1483 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1484 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1485 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1489 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1496 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1502 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1505 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1509 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1512 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1517 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1521 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1522 installed. Closes: #342033
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1526 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1529 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1530 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1531 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1536 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1542 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1548 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1552 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1553 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1554 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1558 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1561 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1566 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1573 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1579 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1582 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1583 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1584 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1585 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1586 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1587 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1588 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1590 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1594 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1597 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1598 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1605 in standard man dirs.
1606 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1610 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1616 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1619 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1624 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1631 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1638 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1641 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1642 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1646 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1649 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1650 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1651 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1653 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1655 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1670 mode. Closes: #324161
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1677 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1678 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1679 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1680 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1685 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1688 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1689 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1690 is necesary for sanity.
1691 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1692 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1697 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1699 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1700 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1704 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1707 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1720 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1721 released, so use at your own risk.
1722 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1723 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1725 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1726 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1727 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1728 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1729 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1730 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1731 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1732 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1733 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1734 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1735 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1736 including twice per config file line now..
1737 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1738 and simplfy the rules file.
1739 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1740 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1741 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1743 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1744 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1751 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1758 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1765 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1772 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1773 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1774 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1775 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1776 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1777 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1784 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1785 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1786 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1794 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1795 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1800 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1803 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1804 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1805 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1810 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1813 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1814 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1815 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1819 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1825 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1832 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1835 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1836 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1837 unknown. Closes: #282924
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1841 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1848 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Spanish man page updates.
1851 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1865 * dh_desktop: reindent
1866 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1867 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1871 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1879 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1885 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1889 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1892 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1893 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1897 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1919 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1926 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1927 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1928 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1929 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1930 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1931 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1933 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1934 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1935 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1936 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1937 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1938 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1939 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1940 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1941 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1942 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1943 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1944 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1945 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1946 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1947 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1948 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1962 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1966 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1969 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1976 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1983 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1993 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1999 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2005 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2008 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2009 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2010 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2014 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2017 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2021 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2024 but occasionally right and necessary.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2028 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2031 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2032 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2033 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2034 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2035 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2039 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2042 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2044 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2045 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2046 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2047 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2048 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2049 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2050 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2051 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2052 postinst scripts for udebs.
2053 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2057 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2060 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2062 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2063 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2067 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2073 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2080 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2087 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2090 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2094 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2097 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2101 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2104 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2107 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2108 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2112 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2118 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2121 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2125 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2128 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2129 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2130 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2132 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2134 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2135 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2136 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2140 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2143 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2148 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2151 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2152 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2153 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2158 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2173 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2174 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2175 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2176 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2177 associated -dbg packages.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2181 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2184 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2191 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2198 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2205 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2210 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2213 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2220 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2228 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2236 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2237 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2238 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2239 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2240 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2241 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2242 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2243 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2244 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2245 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2252 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2257 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2260 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2261 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2268 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2269 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2274 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2277 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2284 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2291 out section number. Closes: #204731
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2317 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2318 removal. Closes: #204286
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2325 renaming. Closes: #203548
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2332 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2333 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2349 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2355 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2358 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2359 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2360 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2367 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2368 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2388 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2396 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2403 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2405 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2406 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2413 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2421 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2433 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2440 it break hard links (see #188663).
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2447 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2457 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2461 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2462 debconf-mergetemplates
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2466 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2469 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2473 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2476 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2480 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2483 * Update debhelper(1).
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2487 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2490 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2491 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2492 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2493 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2494 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2498 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2501 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2502 the shell. Closes: #178524
2503 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2507 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2510 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2514 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2517 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2521 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2524 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2525 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2526 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2527 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2532 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2535 files from installation.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2539 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2542 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2543 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2547 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2550 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2557 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2561 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2567 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2573 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2577 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2578 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2580 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2584 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2587 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2588 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2589 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2590 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2594 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2597 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2601 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2604 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2605 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2609 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2613 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2628 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2629 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2630 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2638 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2639 practice. Closes: #163303
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2659 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2661 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2662 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2663 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2664 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2665 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2672 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2693 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2698 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2726 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2727 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2728 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2729 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2747 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2750 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2751 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2755 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2758 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2759 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2760 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2761 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2762 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2766 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2769 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2771 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2776 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2779 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2786 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2787 right thing. Closes: #150644
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2791 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Stupid, evil typo.
2794 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2805 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2808 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2809 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2823 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2830 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2831 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2839 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2843 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2852 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2853 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Removing perl warning message.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2869 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2872 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2873 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2874 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2875 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2876 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2877 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2878 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2879 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2896 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2899 debconf-mergetemplate.
2900 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2901 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2908 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2909 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2910 dh_install, which ...
2911 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2912 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2913 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2914 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2915 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2916 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2917 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2918 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2919 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2920 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2921 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2922 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2923 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2924 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2925 other minor changes.
2926 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2927 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2928 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2929 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2930 course there's -X ..)
2931 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2932 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2933 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2935 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2936 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2937 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2938 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2939 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2944 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2950 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2953 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2957 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2963 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2969 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2975 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2981 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2984 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2985 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2986 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2987 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2989 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2990 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2994 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3000 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3003 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3007 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3010 upset. Closes: #131322
3012 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3014 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3017 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
3018 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3019 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3020 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3021 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3022 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3023 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3024 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3025 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3026 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3027 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3028 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3029 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3030 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3031 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3033 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3037 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3040 - Better indenting of generated code.
3041 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3045 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3049 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3050 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3051 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3052 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3053 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3054 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3055 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3059 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3062 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3066 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3069 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3070 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3071 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3072 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3073 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3074 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3075 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3076 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3077 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3078 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3079 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3080 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3081 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3082 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3083 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3088 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3094 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3097 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3098 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3102 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3105 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3106 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3110 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3116 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3119 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3120 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3121 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3122 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3123 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3128 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3134 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3137 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3141 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3144 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3149 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3155 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3158 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3162 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3168 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3172 Also some indentation fixes.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3176 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3179 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3180 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3181 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3182 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3183 Closes: #106514, #85520
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3187 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3193 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3199 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3205 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3211 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3217 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3220 change it in debhelper v4..
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3224 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3230 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3233 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3237 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3240 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3244 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3250 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3253 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3254 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3255 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3256 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3257 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3258 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3259 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3260 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3261 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3262 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3263 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3264 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3268 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3271 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3275 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3282 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3285 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3286 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3287 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3288 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3289 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3290 program those options go to. So, for example,
3291 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3292 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3293 something complex. Closes: #89311
3294 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3298 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3301 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3302 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3303 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3307 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3310 through loop. Closes: #98598
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3314 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Missing semi-colon.
3317 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3318 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3322 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3325 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3326 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3327 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3331 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3334 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3335 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3339 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3342 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3346 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3349 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3350 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3354 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3357 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3358 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3359 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3363 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3366 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3367 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3368 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3372 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3375 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3379 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3385 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3391 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3397 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3403 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3406 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3410 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3413 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3414 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3415 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3416 followed. Closes: #85483
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3420 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3422 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3423 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3424 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3428 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3431 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3432 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3433 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3434 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3435 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3436 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3437 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3438 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3439 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3440 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3441 Closes: #88464, #77743
3442 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3443 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3444 us to deal with that gracefully.
3445 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3447 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3448 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3449 a while, Closes: #51225
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3453 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3459 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3462 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3466 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3470 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3475 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3478 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3479 don't make packlist files.
3480 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3481 debhelper coding standards.
3482 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3483 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3487 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3490 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3494 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3497 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3498 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3499 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3500 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3501 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3502 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3503 but is mildly deprecated.
3504 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3505 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3506 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3507 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3508 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3509 switching to statoverrides..
3510 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3511 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3512 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3513 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3514 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3515 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3517 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3518 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3519 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3520 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3521 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3522 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3523 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3524 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3525 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3527 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3528 variable names, pod man pages).
3529 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3530 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3531 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3532 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3533 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3534 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3535 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3552 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3555 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3559 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3561 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3562 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3563 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3567 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3569 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3570 they were previously ignored.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3574 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3576 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3577 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3583 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3584 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3585 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3589 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3591 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3595 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3597 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3598 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3602 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3604 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3605 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3606 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3607 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3608 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3609 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3610 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3611 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3612 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3613 it is an obsolete program.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3617 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3619 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3623 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3627 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3629 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3633 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3637 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3639 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3643 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * typo: Closes, #78567
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3655 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3661 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3667 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3670 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3671 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3672 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3673 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3674 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3681 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3686 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3689 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3690 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3691 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3692 backwards-compatability.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3696 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3699 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3700 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3701 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3702 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3703 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3704 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3706 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3707 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3708 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3710 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3712 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3713 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3714 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3715 should now be raised to severity important..
3716 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3717 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3721 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3724 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3729 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3757 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3758 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3759 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3760 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3764 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3773 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3774 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3775 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3776 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3777 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3778 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3786 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3790 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3796 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3799 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3804 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3807 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3808 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3809 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3810 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3814 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3818 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3821 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3824 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3825 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3828 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3830 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3831 the TODO entry about it.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3835 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3842 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3845 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3846 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3853 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3854 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3855 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3856 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3860 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3876 (this appears to be logal).
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3883 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3884 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3885 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3886 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3890 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3899 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3900 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3901 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3902 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3912 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3915 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3929 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3930 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3931 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3952 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3953 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3954 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3955 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3956 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3957 notice until v2 is complete.
3958 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3959 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3960 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3961 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3962 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3963 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3965 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3966 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3967 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3968 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3988 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4002 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4003 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4004 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4005 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4010 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4013 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4014 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4015 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4023 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4024 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4031 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4038 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4049 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4052 depend on the build and install targets.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4059 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4063 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4082 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4085 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4086 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4087 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4088 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4089 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4090 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4092 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4093 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4094 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4095 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4096 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4097 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4098 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4102 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4108 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4117 right place. Closes: #55065
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4121 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4128 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4131 * Copyright date updates.
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4135 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4138 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4143 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4156 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4162 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4177 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4178 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4179 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4180 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4181 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4182 bits until all files have been registered.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4186 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_installmanpages:
4189 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4190 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4191 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4192 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4193 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4194 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4195 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4196 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4197 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4198 otherwise change the result at all.
4200 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4201 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4202 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4203 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4204 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4209 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4215 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4218 act on files that don't exist.
4219 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4220 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4221 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4223 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4224 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4225 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4226 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4230 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4236 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4245 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4249 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4252 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4254 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4255 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4256 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4263 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4264 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4265 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4266 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4267 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4268 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4269 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4271 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4273 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4277 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4284 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4299 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4318 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4319 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4320 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4321 I made some changes, though:
4322 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4323 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4324 that is a clear violation of policy.
4325 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4326 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4327 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4328 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4329 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4330 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4331 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4332 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4333 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4335 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4345 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4348 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4352 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4355 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4356 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4377 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4378 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4379 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4380 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4381 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4382 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4383 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4397 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4398 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4411 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4415 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4418 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4419 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4425 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4430 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4434 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4441 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4442 for the dependancies to be generated.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4449 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4456 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4457 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4458 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4466 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4467 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4471 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4486 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4499 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4500 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4501 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4502 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4503 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4504 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4505 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4506 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4507 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4508 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4509 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4510 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4514 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4517 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4518 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4520 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4521 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4522 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4523 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4524 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4525 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4527 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4528 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4535 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4546 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4549 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4557 for building debhelper.
4558 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4562 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4569 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4572 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4576 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4579 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4580 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4581 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4582 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4583 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4584 it's always available.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4591 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4592 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4593 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4600 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4601 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4605 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4614 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4618 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4627 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4628 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4629 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4636 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4644 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4645 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4647 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4648 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4667 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4674 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4675 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4677 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4684 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4685 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4686 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4693 things if CDPATH is set.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4706 seems to make sense for the transition.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4713 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4721 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4722 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4729 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4736 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4737 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4738 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4739 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4752 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4753 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4754 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4755 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4756 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4757 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4758 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4759 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4760 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4761 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4766 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4769 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4770 * README: mention doc/v2
4771 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4772 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4776 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4778 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4779 be using this script RSN.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4783 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4786 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4787 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4788 more than 1 init script.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4795 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4799 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Changed perl version detection.
4802 * Changed call to find.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4806 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4809 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4811 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4816 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * Really include dh_installpam.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4822 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4825 * Wrote man page for same.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4832 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4833 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4838 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4845 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4848 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4849 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4850 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4851 x bit was being set!
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4855 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4858 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4859 well. (Closes: 38900)
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4863 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4866 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4867 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4871 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4877 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4884 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4890 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4893 help from Julian Gilbey.
4894 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4895 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4896 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4897 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4898 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4899 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4900 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4905 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4911 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4918 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4924 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4933 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4937 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4940 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4944 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4947 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4951 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4960 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4976 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4979 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4980 may be deleted. (#35845)
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4984 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Various man page enhancements.
4987 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4992 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4995 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4996 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5003 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5004 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5005 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5007 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5008 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5019 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * Another very minor typo fix.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * Very minor typo fix.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5034 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5035 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5039 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5045 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5048 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5049 variables properly (#34850).
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5053 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5059 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5062 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5063 (automatically generated by build process).
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5067 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5069 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5073 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5076 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5077 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5079 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5083 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5086 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5090 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * README: minor typo fix.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5096 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5099 leave it at that. :-)
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5103 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5115 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5118 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5119 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5120 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5124 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5127 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5131 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5134 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5138 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5141 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5142 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5143 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5144 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5148 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5151 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5152 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5153 Craig Small for spotting this.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5157 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5160 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5161 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5165 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5171 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5174 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5178 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5180 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5181 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5182 working on the last version of debhelper.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5189 being made. (#23255)
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5193 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5202 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5206 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5209 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5210 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5211 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5212 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5216 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5219 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5220 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5221 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5222 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5224 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5225 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5227 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5232 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5238 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5244 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5247 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5248 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5249 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5250 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5251 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5252 suidregister actually supports it.
5253 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5254 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5258 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5265 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5268 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5269 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5270 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5271 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5272 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5273 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5274 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5278 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5280 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5281 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5285 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5288 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5289 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5290 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5291 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5295 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5298 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5300 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5301 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5302 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5303 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5304 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5305 effect, either. (#30118)
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5309 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5315 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5318 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5319 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5323 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5332 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5333 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5334 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5335 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5339 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5342 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5343 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5347 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5353 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5356 packages, painlessly.
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5360 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5372 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5378 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * The perl conversion is complete.
5382 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5384 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5385 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5386 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5391 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5394 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5395 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5396 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5400 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5403 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5405 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5407 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5408 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5412 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5415 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5416 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5426 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5429 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5430 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5431 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5432 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5433 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5440 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5441 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5442 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5443 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5450 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5454 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5457 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5458 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5459 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5460 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5461 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5462 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5463 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5464 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5468 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5474 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5477 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5478 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5479 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5484 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5487 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5491 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5494 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5498 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5501 sections of shared libraries.
5502 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5503 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5504 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5505 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5506 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5507 things you don't want them to.
5508 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5509 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5513 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5516 shared libraries. (#26414)
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5520 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5522 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5523 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5524 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5525 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5529 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5533 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5535 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5536 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5537 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5538 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5539 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5543 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5546 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5550 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5553 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5554 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5559 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5562 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5569 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5570 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5571 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5572 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5573 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5575 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5576 remove debian/files properly.
5577 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5578 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5579 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5580 * Removed bogus menu file.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5584 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5587 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5591 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5594 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5595 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5596 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5597 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5598 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5599 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5603 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5606 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5607 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5608 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5609 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5613 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5620 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5623 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5624 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5626 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5627 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5628 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5629 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5630 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5631 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5635 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5638 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5639 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5640 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5641 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5642 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5643 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5644 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5645 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5646 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5647 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5648 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5649 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5650 passed any switches.
5651 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5655 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5658 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5659 at all for a long while.
5660 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5661 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5662 large chunks in the process.
5663 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5664 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5665 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5673 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5675 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5680 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5683 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5684 that don't always have the same files in them.
5685 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5686 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5687 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5691 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5695 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5696 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5697 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5698 updating 27 man pages.
5699 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5700 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5701 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5702 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5703 programs act on. (#25247)
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5707 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5711 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5712 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5713 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5714 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5715 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5716 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5721 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5728 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5735 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5738 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5742 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5748 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5751 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5752 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5753 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5754 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5755 package by accident.
5756 * Is version 1.0 next?
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5760 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5763 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5764 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5768 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5771 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5772 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5773 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5774 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5775 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5777 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5782 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5785 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5786 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5790 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5793 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5797 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5800 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5801 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5806 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5812 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5815 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5816 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5821 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5827 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5830 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5831 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5832 past week. Thanks, guys!
5834 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5835 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5836 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5837 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5838 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5839 would do in the same situation.
5840 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5841 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5843 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5845 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5846 permissions changed.
5847 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5848 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5849 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5850 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5851 files are treated identically.
5852 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5853 * Minor man page fixes.
5854 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5855 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5856 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5860 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5863 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5864 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5865 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5866 use -X multiple times, too.
5867 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5868 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5872 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5875 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5876 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5880 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5883 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5887 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5890 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5891 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5892 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5893 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5894 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5895 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5896 shape if you're starting a new package.
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5900 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5903 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5907 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5910 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5911 because of missing symlinks.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5915 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5921 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5924 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5925 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5926 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5927 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5928 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5930 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5931 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5935 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5937 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5938 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5939 to be changed after the fact :-)
5940 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5944 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5946 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5947 no version string after the -V.
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5951 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5953 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5954 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5959 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5962 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5966 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5969 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5970 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5971 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5972 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5973 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5974 I always welcome corrections!
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5978 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5984 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5987 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5988 * Documented this new switch.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5992 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5995 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5996 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5997 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5998 no packages use the old behavior.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6002 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6005 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6006 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6010 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6013 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6017 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6023 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6026 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6030 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6033 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6034 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6035 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6039 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6045 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6048 into the source package by accident.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6052 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6055 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6056 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6057 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6058 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6059 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6060 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6065 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6069 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6070 inspired to implement some of it.
6071 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6075 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6078 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6082 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6085 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6086 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6090 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6092 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6093 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6094 have done.) (#17598)
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6098 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6104 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6110 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6113 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6117 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6120 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6121 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6125 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6128 argument processor in perl.
6129 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6130 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6131 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6132 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6136 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6139 type directories. (#16933)
6140 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6141 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6142 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6143 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6144 are supported. (#16935)
6145 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6150 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6153 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6157 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6161 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6162 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6163 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6164 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6165 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6166 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6170 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6173 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6174 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6176 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6177 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6178 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6179 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6180 a given package, or -i or -a.
6181 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6182 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6183 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6184 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6185 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6186 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6187 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6188 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6189 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6191 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6192 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6193 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6197 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6200 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6201 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6206 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6209 does not have a section.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6213 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6216 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6217 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6218 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6222 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Fixed typo #16215.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6228 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6231 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6232 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6233 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6234 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6235 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6240 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6243 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6244 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6245 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6250 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6256 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6262 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6265 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6266 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6267 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6268 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6269 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6270 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6274 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6280 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6283 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6287 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6290 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6291 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6292 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6296 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6299 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6303 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6309 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6312 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6316 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6319 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6323 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6329 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6332 postinst, postrm, etc.
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6336 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6345 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6346 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6347 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6348 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6349 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6353 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6356 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6357 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6361 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6364 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6368 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6371 installing package files into.
6372 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6377 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6381 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6385 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6391 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6394 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6398 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6401 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6402 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6403 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6404 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6408 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6410 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6411 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6412 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6413 multiple binary packages.
6414 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6415 should rebuild them with this version.
6416 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6420 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6423 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6427 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6430 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6434 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6437 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6438 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6439 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6440 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6441 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6442 debian/README.debian.
6443 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6444 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6445 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6446 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6447 in a few situations.)
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6451 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6457 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6463 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6466 * Fixed several man pages.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6470 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6473 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6474 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6478 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6480 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6481 is ready for general use.
6482 * Added man pages for all commands.
6483 * Multiple binary package support.
6484 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6485 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6486 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6488 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6489 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6490 auto-installed as parameters.
6491 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6493 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6496 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6497 the package build directory it is to act on.
6498 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6499 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6500 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6504 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6506 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6507 ready to replace debstd.
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400