1 NOTE: debhelper has been NMUed. That NMU will need to be investigated and/or
2 merged before any further debhelper releases can be made.
4 debhelper (5.0.38) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
7 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
10 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:11:49 -0400
14 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
17 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
18 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
19 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
20 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
21 package. Closes: #301424
22 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
23 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
24 fonts). Closes: #372686
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
28 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
34 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
35 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
36 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
37 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
38 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
39 above, but already depends on that.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
43 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
46 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
47 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
48 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
49 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
50 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
54 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
60 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
66 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
67 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
71 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
74 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
78 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
82 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
83 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
85 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
86 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
89 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
90 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
91 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
92 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
93 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
94 new directory on their own.
95 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
96 * Fix broken directory removal code.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
100 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
103 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
104 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
105 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
106 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
110 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
113 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
114 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
115 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
116 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
117 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
121 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
127 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Typo. Closes: #358904
131 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
132 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
136 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
137 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
141 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
143 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
144 || exit 0 instead of the intended
146 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
147 ignored. Closes: #337664
149 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
154 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
160 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
165 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
166 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
167 the dh_installdebconf manpage
168 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
169 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
170 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
171 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
175 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
178 version. Closes: #350607
179 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
180 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
181 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
182 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
186 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
189 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
190 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
191 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
195 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
202 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Minor bug fix from last release.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
208 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
211 language guessing. Closes: #193221
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
215 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
218 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
219 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
220 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
221 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
222 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
223 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
227 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
230 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
231 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
236 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
239 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
243 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
246 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
250 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
253 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
254 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
255 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
256 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
257 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
258 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
262 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
265 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
266 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
267 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
268 link. Closes: #346405
269 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
272 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
273 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
274 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
275 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
276 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
277 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
281 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
288 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
290 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
294 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
297 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
301 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
304 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
309 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
313 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
314 installed. Closes: #342033
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
318 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
321 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
322 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
323 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
328 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
334 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
340 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
344 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
345 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
346 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
350 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
353 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
358 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
365 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
371 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
373 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
374 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
375 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
376 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
377 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
378 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
379 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
380 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
382 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
386 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
389 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
390 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
394 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
397 in standard man dirs.
398 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
402 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
408 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
411 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
416 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
423 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
430 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
433 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
434 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
438 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
440 * NMU with maintainer approval.
441 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
442 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
443 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
445 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
447 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
453 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
459 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
462 mode. Closes: #324161
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
466 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
469 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
470 behavior change. Closes: #249815
471 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
472 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
477 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
480 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
481 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
482 is necesary for sanity.
483 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
484 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
489 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
491 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
492 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
496 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
499 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
503 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
509 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
512 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
513 released, so use at your own risk.
514 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
515 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
517 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
518 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
519 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
520 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
521 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
522 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
523 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
524 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
525 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
526 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
527 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
528 including twice per config file line now..
529 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
530 and simplfy the rules file.
531 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
532 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
533 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
535 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
536 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
540 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
543 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
547 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
550 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
554 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
556 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
557 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
561 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
564 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
565 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
566 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
567 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
568 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
569 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
573 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
576 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
577 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
578 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
583 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
586 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
587 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
592 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installmime: Patch from LoĂŻc Minier to add support for instlaling
595 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
596 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
597 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
602 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
605 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
606 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
607 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
611 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
617 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
624 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
627 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
628 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
629 unknown. Closes: #282924
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
633 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
640 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Spanish man page updates.
643 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
648 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
654 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
657 * dh_desktop: reindent
658 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
659 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
663 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
669 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
671 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
675 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
677 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
681 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
684 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
685 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
689 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
695 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
701 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
708 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
711 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
715 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
718 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
719 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
720 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
721 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
722 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
723 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
725 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
726 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
727 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
728 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
729 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
730 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
731 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
732 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
733 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
734 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
735 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
736 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
737 in the others, and added a few new tests.
738 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
739 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
740 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
744 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
751 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
754 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
758 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
761 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
765 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
768 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
772 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
775 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
779 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
785 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
791 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
797 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
800 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
801 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
802 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
806 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
809 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
813 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
816 but occasionally right and necessary.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
820 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
823 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
824 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
825 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
826 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
827 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
831 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
834 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
836 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
837 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
838 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
839 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
840 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
841 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
842 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
843 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
844 postinst scripts for udebs.
845 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
849 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
852 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
854 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
855 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
859 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
865 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
872 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
879 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
882 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
886 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
889 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
893 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
896 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
899 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
900 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
904 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
910 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
913 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
917 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
920 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
921 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
922 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
924 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
926 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
927 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
928 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
932 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
935 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
940 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
943 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
944 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
945 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
950 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
956 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
962 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
965 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
966 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
967 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
968 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
969 associated -dbg packages.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
973 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
976 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
980 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
983 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
987 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
990 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
994 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
997 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1002 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1005 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1009 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1012 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1017 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1020 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1024 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1028 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1029 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1030 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1031 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1032 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1033 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1034 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1035 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1036 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1037 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1041 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1044 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1049 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1052 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1053 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1057 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1060 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1061 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1066 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1069 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1073 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1076 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1080 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1083 out section number. Closes: #204731
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1087 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1094 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1100 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1106 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1109 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1110 removal. Closes: #204286
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1114 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1117 renaming. Closes: #203548
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1121 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1124 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1125 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1129 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1135 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1141 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1147 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1150 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1151 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1152 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1156 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1159 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1160 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1164 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1170 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1177 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1180 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1185 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1188 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1192 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1195 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1197 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1198 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1202 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1205 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1210 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1213 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1217 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1223 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1225 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1229 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1232 it break hard links (see #188663).
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1236 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1239 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1243 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1249 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1253 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1254 debconf-mergetemplates
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1258 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1261 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1265 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1268 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1272 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1275 * Update debhelper(1).
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1279 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1282 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1283 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1284 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1285 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1286 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1290 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1293 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1294 the shell. Closes: #178524
1295 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1299 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1302 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1306 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1309 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1313 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1316 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1317 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1318 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1319 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1324 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1327 files from installation.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1331 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1334 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1335 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1339 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1342 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1346 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1349 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1353 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1359 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1365 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1369 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1370 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1372 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1376 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1379 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1380 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1381 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1382 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1386 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1389 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1393 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1396 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1397 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1401 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1405 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1416 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1420 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1421 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1422 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1427 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1430 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1431 practice. Closes: #163303
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1435 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1451 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1453 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1454 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1455 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1456 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1457 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1461 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1464 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1469 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1475 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1482 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1485 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1490 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1496 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1502 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1508 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1518 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1519 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1520 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1521 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1526 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1532 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1539 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1542 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1543 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1550 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1551 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1552 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1553 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1554 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1558 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1561 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1563 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1568 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1571 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1575 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1578 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1579 right thing. Closes: #150644
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1583 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Stupid, evil typo.
1586 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1590 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1597 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1600 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1601 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1606 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1615 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1619 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1622 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1623 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1628 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1631 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1635 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1641 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1644 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1645 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1649 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1655 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Removing perl warning message.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1664 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1665 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1666 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1667 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1668 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1669 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1670 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1671 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1688 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1691 debconf-mergetemplate.
1692 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1693 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1697 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1700 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1701 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1702 dh_install, which ...
1703 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1704 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1705 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1706 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1707 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1708 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1709 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1710 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1711 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1712 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1713 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1714 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1715 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1716 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1717 other minor changes.
1718 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1719 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1720 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1721 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1722 course there's -X ..)
1723 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1724 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1725 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1727 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1728 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1729 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1730 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1731 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1736 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1742 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1745 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1749 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1755 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1761 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1767 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1773 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1776 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1777 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1778 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1779 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1781 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1782 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1786 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1792 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1795 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1799 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1802 upset. Closes: #131322
1804 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1806 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1809 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1810 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1811 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1812 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1813 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1814 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1815 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1816 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1817 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1818 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1819 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1820 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1821 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1822 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1823 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1825 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1829 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1832 - Better indenting of generated code.
1833 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1837 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1841 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1842 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1843 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1844 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1845 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1846 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1847 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1851 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1854 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1858 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1861 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1862 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1863 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1864 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1865 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1866 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1867 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1868 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1869 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1870 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1871 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1872 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1873 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1874 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1875 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1880 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1886 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1889 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1890 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1894 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1897 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1898 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1902 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1908 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1911 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1912 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1913 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1914 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1915 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1920 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1926 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1929 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1933 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1936 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1941 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1947 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1950 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1954 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1960 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1964 Also some indentation fixes.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1968 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1971 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1972 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1973 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1974 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1975 Closes: #106514, #85520
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1979 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1985 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1991 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1997 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2003 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2009 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2012 change it in debhelper v4..
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2016 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2022 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2025 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2029 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2032 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2036 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2042 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2045 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2046 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2047 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2048 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2049 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2050 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2051 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2052 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2053 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2054 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2055 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2056 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2060 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2063 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2067 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2074 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2077 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2078 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2079 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2080 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2081 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2082 program those options go to. So, for example,
2083 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2084 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2085 something complex. Closes: #89311
2086 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2090 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2093 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2094 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2095 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2099 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2102 through loop. Closes: #98598
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2106 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Missing semi-colon.
2109 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2110 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2114 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2117 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2118 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2119 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2123 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2126 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2127 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2131 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2134 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2138 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2141 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2142 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2146 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2149 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2150 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2151 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2155 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2158 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2159 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2160 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2164 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2167 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2171 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2177 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2183 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2189 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2195 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2198 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2202 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2205 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2206 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2207 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2208 followed. Closes: #85483
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2212 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2214 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2215 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2216 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2220 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2223 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2224 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2225 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2226 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2227 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2228 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2229 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2230 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2231 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2232 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2233 Closes: #88464, #77743
2234 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2235 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2236 us to deal with that gracefully.
2237 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2239 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2240 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2241 a while, Closes: #51225
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2245 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2251 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2254 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2258 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2262 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2267 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2270 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2271 don't make packlist files.
2272 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2273 debhelper coding standards.
2274 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2275 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2279 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2282 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2286 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2289 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2290 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2291 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2292 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2293 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2294 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2295 but is mildly deprecated.
2296 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2297 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2298 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2299 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2300 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2301 switching to statoverrides..
2302 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2303 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2304 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2305 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2306 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2307 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2309 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2310 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2311 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2312 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2313 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2314 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2315 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2316 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2317 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2319 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2320 variable names, pod man pages).
2321 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2322 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2323 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2324 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2325 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2326 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2327 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2331 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2337 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2344 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2347 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2351 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2353 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2354 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2355 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2359 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2361 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2362 they were previously ignored.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2366 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2368 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2369 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2373 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2375 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2376 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2377 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2381 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2383 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2387 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2389 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2390 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2394 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2396 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2397 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2398 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2399 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2400 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2401 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2402 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2403 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2404 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2405 it is an obsolete program.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2409 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2411 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2415 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2419 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2421 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2425 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2427 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2429 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2431 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2435 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2441 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * typo: Closes, #78567
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2447 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2453 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2459 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2462 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2463 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2464 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2465 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2466 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2470 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2473 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2478 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2481 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2482 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2483 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2484 backwards-compatability.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2488 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2491 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2492 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2493 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2494 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2495 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2496 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2498 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2499 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2500 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2502 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2504 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2505 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2506 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2507 should now be raised to severity important..
2508 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2509 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2513 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2516 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2521 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2527 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2533 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2539 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2546 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2549 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2550 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2551 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2552 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2556 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2562 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2565 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2566 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2567 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2568 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2569 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2570 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2575 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2578 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2582 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2588 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2591 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2596 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2599 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2600 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2601 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2602 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2606 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2610 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2613 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2616 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2617 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2620 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2622 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2623 the TODO entry about it.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2627 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2634 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2637 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2638 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2642 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2645 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2646 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2647 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2648 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2652 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2658 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2665 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2668 (this appears to be logal).
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2672 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2675 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2676 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2677 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2678 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2682 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2688 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2691 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2692 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2693 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2694 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2698 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2704 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2707 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2711 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2718 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2721 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2722 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2723 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2728 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2735 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2741 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2744 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2745 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2746 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2747 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2748 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2749 notice until v2 is complete.
2750 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2751 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2752 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2753 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2754 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2755 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2757 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2758 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2759 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2760 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2764 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2770 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2777 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2780 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2784 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2791 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2794 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2795 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2796 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2797 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2802 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2805 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2806 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2807 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2812 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2815 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2816 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2820 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2823 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2827 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2830 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2834 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2841 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2844 depend on the build and install targets.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2848 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2851 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2855 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2862 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2868 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2874 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2877 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2878 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2879 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2880 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2881 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2882 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2884 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2885 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2886 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2887 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2888 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2889 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2890 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2894 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2900 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2906 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2909 right place. Closes: #55065
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2913 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2920 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2923 * Copyright date updates.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2927 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2930 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2935 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2941 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2948 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2954 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2960 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2966 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2969 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2970 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2971 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2972 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2973 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2974 bits until all files have been registered.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2978 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_installmanpages:
2981 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2982 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2983 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2984 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2985 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2986 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2987 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2988 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2989 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2990 otherwise change the result at all.
2992 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2993 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2994 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2995 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2996 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3001 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3007 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3010 act on files that don't exist.
3011 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3012 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3013 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3015 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3016 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3017 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3018 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3022 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3028 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3034 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3037 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3041 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3044 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3046 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3047 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3048 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3052 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3055 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3056 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3057 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3058 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3059 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3060 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3061 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3063 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3065 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3069 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3076 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3082 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3088 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3091 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3095 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3101 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3107 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3110 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3111 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3112 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3113 I made some changes, though:
3114 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3115 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3116 that is a clear violation of policy.
3117 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3118 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3119 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3120 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3121 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3122 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3123 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3124 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3125 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3127 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3131 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3137 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3140 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3144 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3147 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3148 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3153 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3159 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3166 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3169 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3170 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3171 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3172 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3173 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3174 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3175 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3179 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3185 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3189 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3190 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3194 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3200 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3203 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3207 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3210 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3211 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3215 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3217 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3222 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3226 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3230 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3233 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3234 for the dependancies to be generated.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3238 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3241 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3245 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3248 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3249 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3250 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3255 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3258 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3259 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3263 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3269 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3275 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3278 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3282 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3288 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3291 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3292 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3293 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3294 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3295 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3296 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3297 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3298 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3299 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3300 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3301 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3302 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3306 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3309 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3310 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3312 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3313 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3314 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3315 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3316 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3317 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3319 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3320 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3324 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3327 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3331 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3338 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3341 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3346 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3349 for building debhelper.
3350 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3354 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3361 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3364 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3368 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3371 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3372 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3373 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3374 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3375 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3376 it's always available.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3380 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3383 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3384 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3385 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3389 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3392 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3393 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3397 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3403 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3406 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3410 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3416 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3419 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3420 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3421 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3425 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3428 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3433 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3436 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3437 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3439 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3440 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3444 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3450 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3456 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3459 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3463 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3466 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3467 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3469 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3473 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3476 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3477 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3478 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3482 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3485 things if CDPATH is set.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3489 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3495 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3498 seems to make sense for the transition.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3502 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3505 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3510 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3513 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3514 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3518 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3521 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3525 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3528 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3529 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3530 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3531 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3535 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3541 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3544 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3545 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3546 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3547 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3548 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3549 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3550 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3551 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3552 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3553 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3558 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3561 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3562 * README: mention doc/v2
3563 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3564 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3568 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3570 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3571 be using this script RSN.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3575 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3578 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3579 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3580 more than 1 init script.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3584 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3587 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3591 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Changed perl version detection.
3594 * Changed call to find.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3598 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3601 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3603 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3608 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Really include dh_installpam.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3614 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3617 * Wrote man page for same.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3621 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3624 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3625 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3630 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3637 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3640 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3641 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3642 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3643 x bit was being set!
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3647 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3650 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3651 well. (Closes: 38900)
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3655 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3658 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3659 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3663 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3669 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3676 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3682 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3685 help from Julian Gilbey.
3686 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3687 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3688 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3689 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3690 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3691 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3692 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3697 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3703 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3710 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3716 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3722 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3725 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3729 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3732 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3736 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3739 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3743 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3749 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3752 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3756 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3762 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3768 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3771 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3772 may be deleted. (#35845)
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3776 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Various man page enhancements.
3779 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3784 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3787 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3788 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3792 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3795 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3796 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3797 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3799 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3800 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3805 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3811 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Another very minor typo fix.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3817 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Very minor typo fix.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3823 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3826 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3827 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3831 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3837 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3840 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3841 variables properly (#34850).
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3845 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3851 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3854 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3855 (automatically generated by build process).
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3859 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3861 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3865 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3868 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3869 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3871 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3875 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3878 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3882 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * README: minor typo fix.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3888 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3891 leave it at that. :-)
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3895 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3901 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3907 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3910 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3911 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3912 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3916 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3919 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3923 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3926 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3930 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3933 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3934 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3935 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3936 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3940 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3943 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3944 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3945 Craig Small for spotting this.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3949 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3952 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3953 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3957 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3963 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3966 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3970 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3972 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3973 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3974 working on the last version of debhelper.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3978 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3981 being made. (#23255)
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3985 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3991 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3994 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3998 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4001 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4002 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4003 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4004 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4008 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4011 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4012 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4013 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4014 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4016 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4017 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4019 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4024 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4030 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4036 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4039 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4040 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4041 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4042 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4043 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4044 suidregister actually supports it.
4045 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4046 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4050 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4057 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4060 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4061 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4062 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4063 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4064 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4065 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4066 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4070 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4072 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4073 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4077 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4080 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4081 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4082 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4083 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4087 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4090 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4092 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4093 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4094 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4095 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4096 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4097 effect, either. (#30118)
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4101 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4107 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4110 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4111 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4115 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4121 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4124 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4125 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4126 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4127 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4131 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4134 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4135 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4139 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4145 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4148 packages, painlessly.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4152 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4158 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4164 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4170 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * The perl conversion is complete.
4174 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4176 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4177 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4178 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4183 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4186 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4187 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4188 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4192 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4195 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4197 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4199 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4200 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4204 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4207 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4208 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4212 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4218 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4221 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4222 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4223 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4224 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4225 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4229 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4232 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4233 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4234 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4235 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4239 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4242 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4246 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4249 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4250 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4251 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4252 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4253 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4254 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4255 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4256 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4260 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4266 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4269 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4270 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4271 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4276 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4279 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4283 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4286 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4290 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4293 sections of shared libraries.
4294 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4295 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4296 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4297 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4298 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4299 things you don't want them to.
4300 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4301 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4305 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4308 shared libraries. (#26414)
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4312 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4314 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4315 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4316 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4317 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4321 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4325 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4327 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4328 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4329 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4330 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4331 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4335 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4338 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4342 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4345 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4346 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4351 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4354 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4358 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4361 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4362 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4363 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4364 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4365 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4367 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4368 remove debian/files properly.
4369 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4370 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4371 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4372 * Removed bogus menu file.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4376 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4379 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4383 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4386 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4387 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4388 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4389 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4390 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4391 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4395 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4398 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4399 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4400 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4401 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4405 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4412 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4415 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4416 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4418 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4419 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4420 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4421 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4422 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4423 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4427 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4430 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4431 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4432 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4433 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4434 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4435 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4436 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4437 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4438 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4439 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4440 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4441 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4442 passed any switches.
4443 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4447 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4450 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4451 at all for a long while.
4452 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4453 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4454 large chunks in the process.
4455 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4456 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4457 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4462 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4465 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4467 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4472 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4475 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4476 that don't always have the same files in them.
4477 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4478 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4479 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4483 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4487 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4488 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4489 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4490 updating 27 man pages.
4491 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4492 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4493 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4494 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4495 programs act on. (#25247)
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4499 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4503 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4504 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4505 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4506 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4507 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4508 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4513 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4520 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4527 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4530 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4534 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4540 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4543 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4544 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4545 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4546 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4547 package by accident.
4548 * Is version 1.0 next?
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4552 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4555 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4556 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4560 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4563 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4564 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4565 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4566 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4567 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4569 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4574 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4577 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4578 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4582 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4585 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4589 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4592 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4593 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4598 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4604 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4607 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4608 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4613 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4619 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4622 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4623 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4624 past week. Thanks, guys!
4626 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4627 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4628 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4629 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4630 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4631 would do in the same situation.
4632 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4633 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4635 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4637 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4638 permissions changed.
4639 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4640 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4641 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4642 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4643 files are treated identically.
4644 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4645 * Minor man page fixes.
4646 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4647 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4648 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4652 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4655 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4656 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4657 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4658 use -X multiple times, too.
4659 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4660 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4664 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4667 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4668 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4672 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4675 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4679 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4682 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4683 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4684 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4685 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4686 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4687 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4688 shape if you're starting a new package.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4692 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4695 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4699 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4702 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4703 because of missing symlinks.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4707 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4713 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4716 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4717 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4718 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4719 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4720 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4722 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4723 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4727 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4729 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4730 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4731 to be changed after the fact :-)
4732 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4736 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4738 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4739 no version string after the -V.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4743 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4745 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4746 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4751 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4754 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4758 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4761 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4762 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4763 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4764 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4765 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4766 I always welcome corrections!
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4770 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4776 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4779 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4780 * Documented this new switch.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4784 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4787 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4788 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4789 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4790 no packages use the old behavior.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4794 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4797 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4798 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4802 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4805 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4809 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4815 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4818 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4822 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4825 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4826 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4827 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4831 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4837 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4840 into the source package by accident.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4844 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4847 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4848 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4849 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4850 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4851 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4852 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4857 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4861 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4862 inspired to implement some of it.
4863 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4867 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4870 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4874 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4877 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4878 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4882 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4885 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4886 have done.) (#17598)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4890 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4896 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4902 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4905 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4909 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4912 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4913 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4917 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4920 argument processor in perl.
4921 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4922 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4923 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4924 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4928 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4931 type directories. (#16933)
4932 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4933 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4934 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4935 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4936 are supported. (#16935)
4937 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4942 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4945 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4949 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4953 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4954 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4955 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4956 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4957 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4958 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4962 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4965 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4966 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4968 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4969 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4970 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4971 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4972 a given package, or -i or -a.
4973 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4974 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4975 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4976 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4977 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4978 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4979 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4980 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4981 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4983 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4984 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4985 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4989 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4992 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4993 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4998 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5001 does not have a section.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5005 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5008 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5009 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5010 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5014 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * Fixed typo #16215.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5020 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5023 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5024 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5025 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5026 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5027 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5032 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5035 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5036 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5037 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5042 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5048 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5054 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5057 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5058 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5059 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5060 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5061 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5062 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5066 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5072 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5075 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5079 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5082 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5083 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5084 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5088 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5091 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5095 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5101 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5104 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5108 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5111 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5115 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5121 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5124 postinst, postrm, etc.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5128 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5134 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5137 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5138 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5139 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5140 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5141 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5145 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5148 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5149 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5153 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5156 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5160 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5163 installing package files into.
5164 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5169 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5173 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5177 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5183 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5186 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5190 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5193 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5194 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5195 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5196 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5200 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5202 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5203 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5204 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5205 multiple binary packages.
5206 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5207 should rebuild them with this version.
5208 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5212 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5215 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5219 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5222 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5226 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5229 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5230 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5231 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5232 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5233 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5234 debian/README.debian.
5235 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5236 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5237 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5238 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5239 in a few situations.)
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5243 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5249 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5255 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5258 * Fixed several man pages.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5262 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5265 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5266 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5270 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5273 is ready for general use.
5274 * Added man pages for all commands.
5275 * Multiple binary package support.
5276 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5277 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5278 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5280 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5281 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5282 auto-installed as parameters.
5283 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5285 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5288 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5289 the package build directory it is to act on.
5290 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5291 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5292 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5296 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5298 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5299 ready to replace debstd.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400