1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
4 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
5 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
6 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
10 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
16 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
20 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
22 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
26 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
28 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
29 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
30 introduced by the fix to #527990.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
34 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
37 changes are planned for that mode.
38 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
39 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
40 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
41 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
42 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
43 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
44 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
45 (genesis) still uses them.
46 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
47 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
48 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
49 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
50 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
51 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
52 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
53 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
54 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
55 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
56 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
57 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
58 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
59 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
60 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
61 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
62 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
63 commands. (See #570039)
64 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
66 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
71 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
75 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
76 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
77 in control file or debhelper config files.
78 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
82 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
85 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
86 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
90 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
93 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
97 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
100 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
101 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
105 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Updated French translation.
108 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
109 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
110 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
111 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
113 * Typo. Closes: #571968
114 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
115 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
116 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
117 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
118 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
119 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
120 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
121 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
122 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
124 * dh: Improve documentation.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
128 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
130 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
131 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
132 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
136 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
139 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
143 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
146 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
150 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
153 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
154 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
155 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
156 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
157 options that they do not support.
158 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
159 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
160 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
161 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
162 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
163 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
168 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
172 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
173 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
174 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
175 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
176 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
177 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
178 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
179 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
180 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
184 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
187 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
188 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
189 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
190 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
194 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Typo. Closes: #558654
197 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
198 installed. Closes: #558782
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
202 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
205 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
206 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
207 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
208 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
209 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
213 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
215 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
216 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
217 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
218 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
222 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
225 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
226 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
230 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
232 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
236 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
238 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
239 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
240 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
241 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
242 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
243 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
244 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
245 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
246 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
247 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
248 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
249 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
250 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
251 time soon.) Closes: #554509
252 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
254 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
255 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
256 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
257 document id. Closes: #555677
258 * Typo. Closes: #555659
259 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
260 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
261 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
262 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
264 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
265 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
266 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
271 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
274 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
275 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
276 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
277 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
278 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
279 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
280 translation (#494300 part 2)
283 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
285 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
286 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
287 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
288 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
289 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
293 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
296 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
297 (It was only run once due to logging.)
298 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
299 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
300 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
301 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
302 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
303 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
304 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
305 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
306 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
307 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
311 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
315 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
318 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
319 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
323 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
326 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
327 flag with arch all/any packages.
328 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
329 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
330 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
331 situation. Closes: #540794
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
335 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
339 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
340 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
341 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
342 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
343 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
346 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
347 the default. Closes: #538201
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
352 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
356 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
357 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
358 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
359 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
360 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
362 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
363 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
364 * Above Closes: #491117
365 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
370 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
376 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
377 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
378 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
382 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
385 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
386 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
387 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
388 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
389 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
394 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
397 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
398 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
402 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
404 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
408 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
410 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
411 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
413 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
414 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
415 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
419 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
421 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
422 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
426 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
432 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
434 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
435 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
436 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
441 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
443 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
447 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
450 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
451 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
452 created by using `python' first during build and install.
454 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
459 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
461 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
465 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
467 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
468 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
472 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
474 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
478 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
480 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
484 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
486 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
487 contributed by Modestas Vainius
488 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
489 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
490 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
491 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
492 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
493 that support it. Closes: #480577
494 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
495 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
496 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
498 - Adds support for cmake.
499 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
500 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
502 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
504 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
505 that use them. The options are:
506 --sourcedir, --destdir
507 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
508 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
509 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
510 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
511 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
515 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
521 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
524 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
525 default. Closes: #537140
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
529 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
532 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
533 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
537 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
540 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
544 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
547 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
551 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
554 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
556 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
557 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
558 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
562 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
565 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
566 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
567 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
571 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
574 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
575 warning or deprecation message.
576 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
577 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
578 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
579 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
580 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
581 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
582 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
583 Closes: #534639, #357434
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
587 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
593 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
596 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
597 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
598 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
599 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
601 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
602 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
603 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
607 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
613 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
620 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
623 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
627 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
631 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
632 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
634 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
635 file support. Closes: #494914
636 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
640 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
643 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
644 parameters. Closes: #527256
645 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
646 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
647 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
651 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
655 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
656 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
657 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
661 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
664 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
665 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
666 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
670 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
673 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
674 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
676 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
677 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
678 by triggers). Closes: #521181
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
682 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
686 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
690 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
693 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
694 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
695 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
696 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
701 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
707 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
710 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
711 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
712 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
713 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
714 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
716 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
717 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
718 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
719 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
720 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
721 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
725 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
728 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
729 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
730 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
731 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
732 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
734 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
738 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
740 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
744 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
746 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
747 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
748 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
749 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
750 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
751 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
752 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
753 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
754 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
755 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
756 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
760 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
762 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
763 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
765 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
766 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
767 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
768 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
770 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
771 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
775 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
777 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
778 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
779 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
780 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
781 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
782 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
783 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
785 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
786 that uses them. Affected options are:
787 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
788 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
789 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
790 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
791 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
792 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
793 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
794 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
795 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
796 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
797 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
798 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
802 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
809 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
815 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
817 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
818 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
820 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
821 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
822 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
823 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
824 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
826 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
828 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
829 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
830 rules (see bug #509756).
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
834 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
840 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
841 * Typo. Closes: #493062
842 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
843 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
847 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
850 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
851 empty files. Closes: #490937
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
855 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
861 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
868 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
871 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
872 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
873 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
874 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
879 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
881 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
882 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
883 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
884 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
888 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
891 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
892 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
893 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
894 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
895 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
899 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
906 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
908 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
909 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
910 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
911 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
912 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
913 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
914 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
915 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
916 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
917 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
921 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
924 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
925 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
926 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
927 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
929 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
930 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
931 breaking backwards compatibility.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
935 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
938 message in perl 5.10.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
942 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
948 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Convert copyright file to new format.
951 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
955 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
958 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
962 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
965 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
966 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
967 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
968 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
969 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
970 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
971 logging by dh_listpackages.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
975 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
978 run and there are no packages of that type.
979 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
980 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
981 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
982 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
984 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
985 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
989 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
991 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
992 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
993 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
997 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1000 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1001 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1003 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1004 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1005 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1006 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1007 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1008 planned but not yet implemented.)
1009 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1010 if the Makefile has such a target.
1011 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1012 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1013 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1014 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1015 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1016 but not yet implemented.)
1017 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1018 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1019 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1020 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1021 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1023 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1025 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1026 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1028 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1029 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1030 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1035 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1038 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1039 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1043 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1045 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1046 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1047 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1051 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1057 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1063 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1066 just those installed by the program.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1070 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1073 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1074 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1078 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1081 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1082 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1083 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1084 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1088 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1091 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1092 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1096 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1099 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1100 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1104 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1107 with policy. Closes: #461392
1108 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1109 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1110 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1111 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1112 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1116 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1119 Closes: #460340, #460351
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1123 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1126 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1127 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1128 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1129 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1133 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1136 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1137 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1138 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1139 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1140 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1141 package build directory won't work.
1142 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1143 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1144 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1145 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1146 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1147 mode. Closes: #459426
1148 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1153 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1156 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1160 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1164 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1165 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1166 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1167 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1168 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1169 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1173 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1176 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1177 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1178 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1179 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1183 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1186 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1187 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1188 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1189 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1190 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1194 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1197 debian/package.triggers files.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1201 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1204 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1208 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1211 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1212 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1213 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1214 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1219 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1222 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1226 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1229 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1230 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1232 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1237 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1241 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1242 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1243 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1247 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1254 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1261 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1264 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1266 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1267 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1268 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1270 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1271 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1272 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1276 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1279 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1280 * Update urls to web page.
1281 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1282 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1283 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1284 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1288 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1291 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1292 - typo in alternatives call
1293 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1295 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1296 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1300 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1303 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1308 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1320 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1323 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1325 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1326 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1327 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1328 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1329 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1330 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1331 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1332 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1333 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1334 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1335 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1339 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1342 package install. Closes: #415717
1343 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1344 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1345 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1346 script and then remove the python files.
1347 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1348 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1349 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1350 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1351 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1352 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1353 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1354 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1355 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1356 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1357 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1358 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1359 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1363 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Correct typo in french translation
1369 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1370 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1372 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1374 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1375 Closes: #406921, #381940
1376 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1378 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1379 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1380 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1381 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1382 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1383 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1384 specified). Closes: #381851
1385 * Misc minor changes.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1389 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1396 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1397 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1401 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1407 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1408 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1411 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1412 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1414 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1415 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1416 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1417 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1421 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1424 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1427 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1431 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1437 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1443 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1444 a difficult situation.
1445 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1446 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1447 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1448 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1449 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1450 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1451 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1452 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1453 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1454 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1458 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Non-maintainer upload.
1461 * Update of dh_python
1462 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1463 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1465 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1466 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1467 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1468 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1469 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1471 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1473 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Non-maintainer upload.
1476 * Update of dh_python
1477 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1478 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1479 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1480 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1481 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1482 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1483 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1484 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1485 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1486 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1488 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1489 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1490 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1491 the not too-distant future).
1492 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1493 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1494 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1495 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1496 thus made the build fail.
1498 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1500 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Non-maintainer upload.
1503 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1505 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1507 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1510 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1511 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1512 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1513 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1514 package. Closes: #301424
1515 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1516 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1517 fonts). Closes: #372686
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1521 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1527 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1528 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1529 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1530 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1531 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1532 above, but already depends on that.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1536 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1539 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1540 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1541 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1542 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1543 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1547 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1553 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1559 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1560 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1564 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1567 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1571 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1575 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1576 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1577 new version (0.24.1).
1578 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1579 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1582 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1583 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1584 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1585 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1586 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1587 new directory on their own.
1588 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1589 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1593 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1596 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1597 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1598 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1599 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1603 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1606 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1607 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1608 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1609 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1610 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1614 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1620 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1624 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1625 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1629 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1630 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1634 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1636 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1637 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1639 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1640 ignored. Closes: #337664
1642 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1647 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1653 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1658 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1659 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1660 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1661 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1662 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1663 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1664 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1668 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1671 version. Closes: #350607
1672 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1673 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1674 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1675 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1679 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1682 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1683 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1684 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1688 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1695 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1701 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1704 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1708 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1711 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1712 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1713 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1714 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1715 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1716 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1720 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1723 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1724 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1729 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1732 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1736 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1739 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1743 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1746 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1747 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1748 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1749 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1750 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1751 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1755 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1759 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1760 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1761 link. Closes: #346405
1762 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1764 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1765 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1766 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1767 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1768 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1769 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1770 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1774 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1781 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1787 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1790 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1794 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1797 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1802 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1806 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1807 installed. Closes: #342033
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1811 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1814 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1815 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1816 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1821 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1827 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1837 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1838 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1839 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1843 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1846 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1851 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1858 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1864 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1867 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1868 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1869 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1870 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1871 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1872 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1873 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1875 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1879 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1882 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1883 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1890 in standard man dirs.
1891 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1895 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1904 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1923 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1926 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1927 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1934 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1935 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1936 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1938 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1940 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1955 mode. Closes: #324161
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1962 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1963 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1964 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1965 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1970 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1973 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1974 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1975 is necesary for sanity.
1976 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1977 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1984 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1985 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1992 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2005 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2006 released, so use at your own risk.
2007 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2008 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2010 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2011 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2012 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2013 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2014 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2015 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2016 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2017 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2018 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2019 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2020 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2021 including twice per config file line now..
2022 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2023 and simplfy the rules file.
2024 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2025 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2026 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2028 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2029 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2036 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2043 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2050 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2057 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2058 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2059 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2060 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2061 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2062 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2069 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2070 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2071 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2076 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2079 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2080 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2085 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2088 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2089 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2090 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2095 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2098 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2099 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2100 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2104 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2110 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2117 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2120 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2121 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2122 unknown. Closes: #282924
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2133 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Spanish man page updates.
2136 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2150 * dh_desktop: reindent
2151 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2152 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2164 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2170 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2174 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2177 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2178 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2182 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2204 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2211 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2212 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2213 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2214 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2215 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2216 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2218 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2219 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2220 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2221 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2222 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2223 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2224 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2225 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2226 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2227 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2228 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2229 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2230 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2231 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2232 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2233 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2237 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2247 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2251 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2254 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2258 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2261 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2268 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2278 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2293 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2294 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2295 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2299 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2302 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2309 but occasionally right and necessary.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2313 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2316 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2317 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2318 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2319 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2320 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2324 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2327 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2329 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2330 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2331 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2332 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2333 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2334 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2335 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2336 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2337 postinst scripts for udebs.
2338 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2342 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2345 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2347 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2348 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2365 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2372 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2375 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2379 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2382 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2386 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2389 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2392 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2393 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2397 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2406 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2413 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2414 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2415 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2417 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2419 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2420 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2421 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2425 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2428 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2433 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2436 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2437 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2438 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2443 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2449 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2458 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2459 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2460 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2461 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2462 associated -dbg packages.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2469 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2476 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2483 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2490 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2498 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2505 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2513 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2521 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2522 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2523 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2524 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2525 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2526 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2527 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2528 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2529 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2530 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2537 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2545 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2546 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2553 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2554 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2562 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2569 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2573 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2576 out section number. Closes: #204731
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2602 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2603 removal. Closes: #204286
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2610 renaming. Closes: #203548
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2617 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2618 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2634 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2640 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2643 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2644 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2645 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2652 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2653 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2673 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2681 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2688 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2690 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2691 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2698 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2706 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2718 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2722 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2725 it break hard links (see #188663).
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2732 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2742 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2746 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2747 debconf-mergetemplates
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2751 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2754 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2758 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2761 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2765 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2768 * Update debhelper(1).
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2772 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2775 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2776 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2777 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2778 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2779 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2783 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2786 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2787 the shell. Closes: #178524
2788 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2792 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2795 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2799 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2802 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2806 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2809 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2810 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2811 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2812 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2817 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2820 files from installation.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2824 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2827 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2828 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2835 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2842 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2846 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2852 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2858 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2862 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2863 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2865 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2869 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2872 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2873 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2874 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2875 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2879 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2882 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2886 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2889 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2890 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2894 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2898 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2903 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2913 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2914 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2915 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2920 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2923 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2924 practice. Closes: #163303
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2928 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2944 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2946 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2947 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2948 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2949 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2950 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2957 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2978 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3011 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3012 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3013 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3014 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3035 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3036 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3043 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3044 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3045 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3046 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3047 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3051 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3054 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3056 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3064 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3071 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3072 right thing. Closes: #150644
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Stupid, evil typo.
3079 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3090 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3093 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3094 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3108 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3115 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3116 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3124 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3128 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3137 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3138 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3142 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3148 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Removing perl warning message.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3157 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3158 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3159 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3160 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3161 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3162 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3163 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3164 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3168 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3184 debconf-mergetemplate.
3185 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3186 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3190 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3193 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3194 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3195 dh_install, which ...
3196 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3197 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3198 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3199 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3200 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3201 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3202 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3203 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3204 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3205 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3206 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3207 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3208 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3209 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3210 other minor changes.
3211 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3212 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3213 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3214 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3215 course there's -X ..)
3216 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3217 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3218 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3220 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3221 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3222 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3223 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3224 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3229 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3235 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3238 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3242 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3248 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3254 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3260 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3266 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3269 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3270 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3271 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3272 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3274 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3275 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3279 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3285 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3288 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3292 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3295 upset. Closes: #131322
3297 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3299 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3302 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3303 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3304 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3305 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3306 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3307 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3308 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3309 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3310 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3311 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3312 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3313 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3314 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3315 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3316 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3318 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3322 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3325 - Better indenting of generated code.
3326 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3330 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3334 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3335 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3336 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3337 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3338 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3339 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3340 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3344 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3347 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3351 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3354 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3355 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3356 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3357 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3358 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3359 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3360 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3361 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3362 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3363 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3364 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3365 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3366 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3367 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3368 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3373 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3379 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3382 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3383 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3387 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3390 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3391 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3395 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3401 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3404 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3405 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3406 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3407 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3408 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3413 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3419 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3422 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3426 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3429 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3434 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3440 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3443 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3447 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3453 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3457 Also some indentation fixes.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3461 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3464 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3465 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3466 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3467 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3468 Closes: #106514, #85520
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3472 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3484 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3490 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3496 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3502 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3505 change it in debhelper v4..
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3509 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3515 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3518 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3522 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3525 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3529 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3535 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3538 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3539 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3540 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3541 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3542 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3543 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3544 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3545 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3546 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3547 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3548 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3549 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3553 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3556 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3567 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3570 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3571 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3572 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3573 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3574 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3575 program those options go to. So, for example,
3576 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3577 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3578 something complex. Closes: #89311
3579 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3583 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3586 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3587 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3588 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3592 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3595 through loop. Closes: #98598
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3599 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Missing semi-colon.
3602 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3603 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3607 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3610 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3611 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3612 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3616 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3619 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3620 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3624 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3627 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3631 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3634 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3635 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3639 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3642 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3643 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3644 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3648 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3651 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3652 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3653 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3657 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3660 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3664 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3670 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3676 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3682 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3688 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3691 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3695 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3698 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3699 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3700 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3701 followed. Closes: #85483
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3705 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3707 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3708 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3709 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3713 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3716 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3717 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3718 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3719 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3720 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3721 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3722 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3723 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3724 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3725 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3726 Closes: #88464, #77743
3727 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3728 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3729 us to deal with that gracefully.
3730 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3732 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3733 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3734 a while, Closes: #51225
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3738 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3744 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3747 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3751 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3755 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3760 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3763 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3764 don't make packlist files.
3765 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3766 debhelper coding standards.
3767 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3768 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3772 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3775 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3779 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3782 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3783 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3784 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3785 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3786 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3787 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3788 but is mildly deprecated.
3789 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3790 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3791 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3792 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3793 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3794 switching to statoverrides..
3795 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3796 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3797 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3798 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3799 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3800 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3802 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3803 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3804 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3805 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3806 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3807 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3808 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3809 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3810 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3812 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3813 variable names, pod man pages).
3814 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3815 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3816 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3817 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3818 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3819 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3820 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3824 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3830 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3837 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3840 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3844 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3846 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3847 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3848 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3852 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3854 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3855 they were previously ignored.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3859 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3861 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3862 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3866 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3868 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3869 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3870 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3876 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3882 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3883 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3889 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3890 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3891 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3892 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3893 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3894 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3895 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3896 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3897 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3898 it is an obsolete program.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3902 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3904 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3912 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3918 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3922 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3924 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * typo: Closes, #78567
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3946 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3952 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3955 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3956 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3957 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3958 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3959 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3966 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3974 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3975 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3976 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3977 backwards-compatibility.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3984 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3985 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3986 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3987 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3988 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3989 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3991 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3992 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3993 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3995 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3997 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3998 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3999 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4000 should now be raised to severity important..
4001 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4002 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4006 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4009 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4014 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4020 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4026 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4032 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4039 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4042 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4043 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4044 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4045 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4049 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4055 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4058 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4059 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4060 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4061 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4062 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4063 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4068 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4071 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4081 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4084 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4089 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4092 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4093 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4094 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4095 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4103 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4106 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4109 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4110 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4113 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4115 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4116 the TODO entry about it.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4130 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4131 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4138 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4139 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4140 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4141 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4161 (this appears to be logal).
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4168 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4169 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4170 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4171 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4175 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4184 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4185 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4186 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4187 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4200 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4214 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4215 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4216 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4237 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4238 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4239 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4240 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4241 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4242 notice until v2 is complete.
4243 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4244 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4245 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4246 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4247 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4248 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4250 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4251 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4252 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4253 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4257 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4270 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4273 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4287 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4288 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4289 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4290 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4298 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4299 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4300 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4308 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4309 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4313 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4316 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4323 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4337 depend on the build and install targets.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4344 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4355 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4361 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4367 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4370 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4371 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4372 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4373 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4374 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4375 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4377 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4378 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4379 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4380 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4381 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4382 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4383 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4393 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4399 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4402 right place. Closes: #55065
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4406 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4416 * Copyright date updates.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4423 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4428 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4447 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4453 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4459 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4462 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4463 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4464 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4465 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4466 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4467 bits until all files have been registered.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4471 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_installmanpages:
4474 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4475 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4476 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4477 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4478 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4479 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4480 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4481 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4482 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4483 otherwise change the result at all.
4485 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4486 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4487 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4488 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4489 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4494 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4500 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4503 act on files that don't exist.
4504 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4505 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4506 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4508 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4509 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4510 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4511 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4515 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4521 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4527 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4530 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4534 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4537 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4539 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4540 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4541 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4545 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4548 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4549 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4550 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4551 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4552 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4553 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4554 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4556 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4558 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4562 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4569 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4584 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4603 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4604 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4605 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4606 I made some changes, though:
4607 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4608 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4609 that is a clear violation of policy.
4610 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4611 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4612 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4613 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4614 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4615 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4616 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4617 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4618 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4620 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4633 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4637 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4640 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4641 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4662 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4663 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4664 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4665 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4666 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4667 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4668 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4682 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4683 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4693 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4696 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4700 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4703 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4704 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4710 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4719 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4726 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4727 for the dependancies to be generated.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4734 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4738 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4741 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4742 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4743 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4748 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4751 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4752 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4762 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4771 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4784 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4785 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4786 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4787 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4788 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4789 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4790 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4791 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4792 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4793 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4794 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4795 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4802 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4803 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4805 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4806 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4807 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4808 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4809 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4810 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4812 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4813 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4817 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4820 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4824 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4831 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4834 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4842 for building debhelper.
4843 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4847 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4854 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4857 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4864 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4865 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4866 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4867 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4868 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4869 it's always available.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4876 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4877 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4878 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4885 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4886 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4899 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4903 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4909 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4912 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4913 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4914 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4918 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4921 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4926 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4929 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4930 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4932 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4933 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4943 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4949 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4952 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4956 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4959 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4960 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4962 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4966 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4969 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4970 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4971 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4975 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4978 things if CDPATH is set.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4982 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4988 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4991 seems to make sense for the transition.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4998 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5003 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5006 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5007 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5011 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5014 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5018 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5021 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5022 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5023 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5024 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5037 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5038 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5039 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5040 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5041 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5042 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5043 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5044 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5045 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5046 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5051 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5054 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5055 * README: mention doc/v2
5056 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5057 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5061 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5063 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5064 be using this script RSN.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5071 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5072 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5073 more than 1 init script.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5077 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5080 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5084 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * Changed perl version detection.
5087 * Changed call to find.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5091 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5094 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5096 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5101 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Really include dh_installpam.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5110 * Wrote man page for same.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5114 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5117 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5118 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5123 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5130 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5133 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5134 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5135 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5136 x bit was being set!
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5143 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5144 well. (Closes: 38900)
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5148 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5151 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5152 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5156 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5169 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5175 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5178 help from Julian Gilbey.
5179 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5180 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5181 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5182 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5183 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5184 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5185 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5218 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5222 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5225 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5232 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5245 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5261 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5264 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5265 may be deleted. (#35845)
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * Various man page enhancements.
5272 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5280 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5281 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5288 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5289 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5290 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5292 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5293 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5298 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5304 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * Another very minor typo fix.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * Very minor typo fix.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5319 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5320 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5324 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5333 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5334 variables properly (#34850).
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5338 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5344 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5347 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5348 (automatically generated by build process).
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5354 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5361 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5362 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5364 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5368 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5371 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5375 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * README: minor typo fix.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5381 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5384 leave it at that. :-)
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5388 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5394 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5400 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5403 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5404 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5405 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5412 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5416 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5419 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5423 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5426 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5427 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5428 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5429 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5433 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5436 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5437 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5438 Craig Small for spotting this.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5442 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5445 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5446 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5456 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5459 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5465 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5466 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5467 working on the last version of debhelper.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5474 being made. (#23255)
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5478 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5484 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5487 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5491 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5494 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5495 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5496 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5497 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5501 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5504 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5505 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5506 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5507 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5509 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5510 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5512 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5532 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5533 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5534 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5535 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5536 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5537 suidregister actually supports it.
5538 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5539 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5543 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5550 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5553 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5554 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5555 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5556 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5557 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5558 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5559 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5563 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5565 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5566 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5573 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5574 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5575 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5576 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5580 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5583 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5585 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5586 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5587 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5588 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5589 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5590 effect, either. (#30118)
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5594 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5603 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5604 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5608 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5617 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5618 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5619 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5620 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5624 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5627 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5628 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5632 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5638 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5641 packages, painlessly.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5645 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5651 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5657 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5663 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * The perl conversion is complete.
5667 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5669 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5670 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5671 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5676 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5679 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5680 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5681 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5685 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5688 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5690 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5692 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5693 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5697 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5700 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5701 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5705 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5711 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5714 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5715 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5716 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5717 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5718 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5725 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5726 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5727 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5728 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5732 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5735 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5739 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5742 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5743 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5744 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5745 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5746 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5747 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5748 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5749 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5753 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5759 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5762 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5763 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5764 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5769 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5772 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5776 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5779 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5783 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5786 sections of shared libraries.
5787 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5788 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5789 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5790 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5791 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5792 things you don't want them to.
5793 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5794 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5798 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5801 shared libraries. (#26414)
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5805 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5807 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5808 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5809 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5810 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5814 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5818 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5820 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5821 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5822 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5823 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5824 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5828 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5831 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5835 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5838 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5839 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5844 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5847 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5851 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5854 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5855 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5856 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5857 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5858 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5860 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5861 remove debian/files properly.
5862 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5863 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5864 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5865 * Removed bogus menu file.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5869 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5872 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5876 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5879 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5880 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5881 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5882 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5883 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5884 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5888 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5891 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5892 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5893 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5894 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5898 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5905 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5908 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5909 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5911 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5912 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5913 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5914 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5915 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5916 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5920 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5923 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5924 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5925 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5926 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5927 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5928 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5929 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5930 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5931 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5932 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5933 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5934 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5935 passed any switches.
5936 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5940 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5943 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5944 at all for a long while.
5945 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5946 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5947 large chunks in the process.
5948 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5949 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5950 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5955 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5958 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5960 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5965 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5968 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5969 that don't always have the same files in them.
5970 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5971 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5972 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5976 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5980 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5981 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5982 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5983 updating 27 man pages.
5984 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5985 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5986 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5987 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5988 programs act on. (#25247)
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5992 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5996 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5997 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5998 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5999 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6000 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6001 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6006 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6013 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6015 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6020 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6023 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6027 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6033 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6036 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6037 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6038 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6039 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6040 package by accident.
6041 * Is version 1.0 next?
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6045 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6048 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6049 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6053 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6056 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6057 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6058 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6059 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6060 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6062 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6067 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6070 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6071 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6075 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6078 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6082 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6085 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6086 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6091 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6097 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6100 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6101 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6106 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6112 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6115 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6116 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6117 past week. Thanks, guys!
6119 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6120 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6121 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6122 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6123 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6124 would do in the same situation.
6125 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6126 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6128 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6130 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6131 permissions changed.
6132 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6133 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6134 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6135 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6136 files are treated identically.
6137 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6138 * Minor man page fixes.
6139 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6140 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6141 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6145 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6148 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6149 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6150 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6151 use -X multiple times, too.
6152 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6153 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6157 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6160 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6161 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6165 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6168 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6172 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6175 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6176 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6177 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6178 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6179 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6180 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6181 shape if you're starting a new package.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6185 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6187 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6188 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6192 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6195 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6196 because of missing symlinks.
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6200 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6206 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6209 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6210 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6211 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6212 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6213 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6215 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6216 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6220 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6222 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6223 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6224 to be changed after the fact :-)
6225 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6229 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6231 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6232 no version string after the -V.
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6236 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6238 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6239 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6244 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6247 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6251 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6254 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6255 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6256 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6257 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6258 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6259 I always welcome corrections!
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6263 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6269 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6272 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6273 * Documented this new switch.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6277 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6280 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6281 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6282 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6283 no packages use the old behavior.
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6287 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6290 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6291 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6295 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6297 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6298 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6302 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6308 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6311 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6315 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6318 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6319 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6320 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6324 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6330 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6333 into the source package by accident.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6337 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6340 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6341 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6342 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6343 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6344 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6345 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6350 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6354 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6355 inspired to implement some of it.
6356 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6360 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6362 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6363 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6367 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6370 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6371 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6375 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6378 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6379 have done.) (#17598)
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6383 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6389 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6395 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6398 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6402 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6404 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6405 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6406 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6410 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6413 argument processor in perl.
6414 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6415 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6416 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6417 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6421 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6424 type directories. (#16933)
6425 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6426 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6427 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6428 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6429 are supported. (#16935)
6430 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6435 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6438 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6442 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6446 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6447 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6448 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6449 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6450 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6451 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6455 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6458 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6459 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6461 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6462 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6463 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6464 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6465 a given package, or -i or -a.
6466 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6467 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6468 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6469 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6470 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6471 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6472 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6473 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6474 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6476 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6477 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6478 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6482 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6485 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6486 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6491 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6494 does not have a section.
6496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6498 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6500 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6501 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6502 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6503 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6507 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * Fixed typo #16215.
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6513 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6516 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6517 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6518 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6519 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6520 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6525 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6528 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6529 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6530 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6535 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6550 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6551 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6552 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6553 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6554 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6555 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6559 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6561 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6565 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6567 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6568 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6572 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6574 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6575 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6576 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6577 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6581 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6584 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6594 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6597 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6601 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6603 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6604 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6608 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6614 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6617 postinst, postrm, etc.
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6621 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6630 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6631 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6632 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6633 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6634 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6638 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6640 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6641 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6642 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6646 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6649 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6653 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6655 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6656 installing package files into.
6657 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6662 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6666 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6670 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6672 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6676 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6679 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6683 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6686 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6687 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6688 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6689 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6693 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6695 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6696 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6697 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6698 multiple binary packages.
6699 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6700 should rebuild them with this version.
6701 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6705 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6708 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6712 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6715 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6719 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6722 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6723 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6724 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6725 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6726 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6727 debian/README.debian.
6728 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6729 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6730 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6731 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6732 in a few situations.)
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6736 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6738 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6742 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6748 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6750 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6751 * Fixed several man pages.
6753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6755 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6757 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6758 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6759 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6763 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6765 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6766 is ready for general use.
6767 * Added man pages for all commands.
6768 * Multiple binary package support.
6769 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6770 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6771 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6773 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6774 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6775 auto-installed as parameters.
6776 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6778 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6781 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6782 the package build directory it is to act on.
6783 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6784 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6785 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6789 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6791 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6792 ready to replace debstd.
6794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400