1 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
4 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
5 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
6 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
7 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
11 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
14 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
15 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
16 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
17 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
18 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
22 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
25 debian/package.triggers files.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
29 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
32 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
36 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
39 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
40 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
41 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
42 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
47 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
50 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
54 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
57 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
58 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
60 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
65 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
69 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
70 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
71 * Typo. Closes: #441272
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
75 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
82 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
89 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
92 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
94 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
95 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
96 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
98 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
99 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
100 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
104 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
107 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
108 * Update urls to web page.
109 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
111 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
112 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
116 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
119 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
120 - typo in alternatives call
121 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
123 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
124 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
128 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
131 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
136 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
142 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
148 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
151 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
153 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
154 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
155 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
156 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
157 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
158 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
159 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
160 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
161 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
162 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
163 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
167 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
170 package install. Closes: #415717
171 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
172 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
173 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
174 script and then remove the python files.
175 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
176 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
177 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
178 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
179 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
180 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
181 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
182 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
183 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
184 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
185 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
186 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
187 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
191 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Correct typo in french translation
197 * Typo. Closes: #400571
198 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
200 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
202 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
203 Closes: #406921, #381940
204 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
206 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
207 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
208 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
209 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
210 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
211 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
212 specified). Closes: #381851
213 * Misc minor changes.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
217 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
224 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
225 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
229 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
235 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
236 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
239 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
240 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
242 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
243 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
244 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
245 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
249 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
252 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
255 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
259 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
265 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
271 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
272 a difficult situation.
273 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
274 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
275 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
276 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
277 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
278 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
279 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
280 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
281 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
282 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
286 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Non-maintainer upload.
289 * Update of dh_python
290 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
291 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
293 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
294 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
295 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
296 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
297 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
299 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
301 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Non-maintainer upload.
304 * Update of dh_python
305 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
306 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
307 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
308 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
309 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
310 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
311 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
312 specific python version. Closes: #373853
313 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
314 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
316 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
317 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
318 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
319 the not too-distant future).
320 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
321 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
322 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
323 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
324 thus made the build fail.
326 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
328 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Non-maintainer upload.
331 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
333 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
335 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
338 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
339 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
340 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
341 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
342 package. Closes: #301424
343 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
344 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
345 fonts). Closes: #372686
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
349 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
355 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
356 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
357 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
358 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
359 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
360 above, but already depends on that.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
364 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
367 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
368 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
369 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
370 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
371 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
375 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
381 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
387 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
388 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
392 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
395 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
399 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
403 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
404 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
405 new version (0.24.1).
406 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
407 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
410 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
411 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
412 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
413 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
414 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
415 new directory on their own.
416 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
417 * Fix broken directory removal code.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
421 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
424 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
425 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
426 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
427 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
431 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
434 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
435 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
436 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
437 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
438 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
442 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
448 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Typo. Closes: #358904
452 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
453 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
457 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
458 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
462 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
464 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
465 || exit 0 instead of the intended
467 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
468 ignored. Closes: #337664
470 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
475 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
481 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
486 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
487 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
488 the dh_installdebconf manpage
489 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
490 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
491 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
492 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
496 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
499 version. Closes: #350607
500 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
501 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
502 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
503 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
507 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
510 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
511 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
512 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
516 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
523 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Minor bug fix from last release.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
529 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
532 language guessing. Closes: #193221
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
536 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
539 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
540 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
541 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
542 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
543 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
544 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
548 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
551 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
552 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
557 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
560 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
564 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
567 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
571 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
574 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
575 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
576 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
577 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
578 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
579 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
583 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
586 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
587 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
588 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
589 link. Closes: #346405
590 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
593 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
594 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
595 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
596 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
597 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
598 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
602 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
609 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
611 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
615 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
618 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
622 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
625 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
630 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
634 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
635 installed. Closes: #342033
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
639 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
642 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
643 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
644 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
649 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
655 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
661 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
665 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
666 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
667 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
671 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
674 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
679 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
686 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
692 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
694 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
695 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
696 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
697 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
698 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
699 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
700 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
701 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
703 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
707 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
710 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
711 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
715 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
718 in standard man dirs.
719 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
723 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
729 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
732 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
737 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
744 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
751 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
754 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
755 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
759 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
761 * NMU with maintainer approval.
762 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
763 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
764 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
766 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
768 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
774 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
780 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
783 mode. Closes: #324161
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
787 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
790 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
791 behavior change. Closes: #249815
792 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
793 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
798 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
801 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
802 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
803 is necesary for sanity.
804 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
805 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
810 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
812 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
813 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
817 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
820 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
824 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
830 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
833 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
834 released, so use at your own risk.
835 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
836 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
838 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
839 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
840 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
841 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
842 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
843 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
844 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
845 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
846 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
847 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
848 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
849 including twice per config file line now..
850 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
851 and simplfy the rules file.
852 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
853 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
854 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
856 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
857 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
861 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
864 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
868 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
871 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
875 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
877 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
878 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
882 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
885 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
886 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
887 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
888 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
889 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
890 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
894 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
897 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
898 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
899 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
904 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
907 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
908 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
913 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
916 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
917 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
918 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
923 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
926 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
927 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
928 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
932 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
938 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
945 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
948 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
949 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
950 unknown. Closes: #282924
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
954 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
961 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Spanish man page updates.
964 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
969 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
975 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
978 * dh_desktop: reindent
979 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
980 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
984 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
990 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
992 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
996 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
998 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1002 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1005 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1006 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1010 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1016 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1022 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1029 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1032 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1036 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1039 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1040 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1041 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1042 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1043 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1044 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1046 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1047 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1048 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1049 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1050 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1051 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1052 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1053 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1054 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1055 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1056 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1057 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1058 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1059 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1060 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1061 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1065 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1072 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1075 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1079 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1082 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1086 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1089 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1093 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1096 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1100 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1106 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1112 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1118 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1121 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1122 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1123 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1127 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1130 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1134 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1137 but occasionally right and necessary.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1141 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1144 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1145 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1146 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1147 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1148 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1152 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1155 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1157 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1158 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1159 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1160 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1161 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1162 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1163 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1164 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1165 postinst scripts for udebs.
1166 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1170 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1173 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1175 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1176 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1180 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1186 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1193 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1200 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1203 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1207 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1210 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1214 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1217 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1220 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1221 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1225 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1231 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1234 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1238 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1241 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1242 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1243 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1245 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1247 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1248 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1249 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1253 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1256 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1261 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1264 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1265 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1266 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1271 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1277 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1286 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1287 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1288 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1289 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1290 associated -dbg packages.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1294 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1297 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1301 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1304 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1308 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1311 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1315 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1318 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1326 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1333 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1338 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1341 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1345 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1349 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1350 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1351 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1352 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1353 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1354 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1355 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1356 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1357 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1358 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1362 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1365 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1370 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1373 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1374 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1378 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1381 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1382 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1390 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1397 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1401 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1404 out section number. Closes: #204731
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1408 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1415 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1421 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1427 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1430 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1431 removal. Closes: #204286
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1435 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1438 renaming. Closes: #203548
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1442 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1445 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1446 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1450 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1462 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1468 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1471 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1472 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1473 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1477 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1480 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1481 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1491 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1498 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1501 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1509 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1516 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1518 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1519 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1523 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1526 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1531 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1534 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1538 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1544 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1546 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1550 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1553 it break hard links (see #188663).
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1560 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1564 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1570 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1574 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1575 debconf-mergetemplates
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1579 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1582 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1586 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1589 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1593 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1596 * Update debhelper(1).
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1600 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1603 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1604 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1605 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1606 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1607 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1611 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1614 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1615 the shell. Closes: #178524
1616 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1620 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1623 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1627 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1630 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1634 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1637 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1638 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1639 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1640 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1645 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1648 files from installation.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1652 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1655 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1656 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1660 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1663 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1667 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1670 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1674 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1680 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1690 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1691 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1693 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1697 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1700 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1701 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1702 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1703 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1707 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1710 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1714 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1717 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1718 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1722 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1726 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1731 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1737 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1741 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1742 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1743 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1751 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1752 practice. Closes: #163303
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1756 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1772 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1774 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1775 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1776 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1777 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1778 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1782 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1785 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1790 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1803 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1806 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1839 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1840 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1841 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1842 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1863 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1864 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1871 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1872 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1873 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1874 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1875 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1882 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1884 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1892 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1899 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1900 right thing. Closes: #150644
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1904 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Stupid, evil typo.
1907 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1921 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1922 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1936 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1943 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1944 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1952 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1956 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1965 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1966 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1970 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Removing perl warning message.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1985 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1986 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1987 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1988 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1989 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1990 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1991 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1992 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2012 debconf-mergetemplate.
2013 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2014 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2021 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2022 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2023 dh_install, which ...
2024 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2025 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2026 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2027 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2028 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2029 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2030 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2031 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2032 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2033 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2034 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2035 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2036 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2037 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2038 other minor changes.
2039 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2040 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2041 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2042 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2043 course there's -X ..)
2044 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2045 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2046 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2048 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2049 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2050 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2051 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2052 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2057 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2063 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2066 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2070 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2076 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2082 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2088 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2094 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2097 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2098 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2099 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2100 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2102 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2103 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2107 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2113 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2116 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2120 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2123 upset. Closes: #131322
2125 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2127 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2130 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2131 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2132 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2133 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2134 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2135 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2136 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2137 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2138 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2139 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2140 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2141 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2142 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2143 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2144 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2146 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2150 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2153 - Better indenting of generated code.
2154 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2158 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2162 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2163 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2164 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2165 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2166 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2167 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2168 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2172 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2175 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2179 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2182 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2183 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2184 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2185 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2186 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2187 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2188 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2189 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2190 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2191 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2192 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2193 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2194 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2195 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2196 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2201 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2207 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2210 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2211 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2215 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2218 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2219 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2223 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2229 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2232 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2233 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2234 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2235 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2236 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2241 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2247 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2250 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2254 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2257 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2262 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2268 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2271 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2275 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2281 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2285 Also some indentation fixes.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2289 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2292 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2293 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2294 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2295 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2296 Closes: #106514, #85520
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2300 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2306 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2312 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2318 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2324 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2330 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2333 change it in debhelper v4..
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2337 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2343 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2346 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2350 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2353 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2357 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2363 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2366 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2367 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2368 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2369 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2370 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2371 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2372 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2373 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2374 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2375 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2376 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2377 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2381 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2384 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2388 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2395 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2398 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2399 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2400 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2401 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2402 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2403 program those options go to. So, for example,
2404 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2405 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2406 something complex. Closes: #89311
2407 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2411 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2414 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2415 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2416 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2420 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2423 through loop. Closes: #98598
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2427 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Missing semi-colon.
2430 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2431 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2435 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2438 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2439 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2440 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2444 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2447 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2448 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2452 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2455 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2459 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2462 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2463 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2467 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2470 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2471 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2472 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2476 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2479 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2480 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2481 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2485 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2488 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2492 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2498 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2504 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2510 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2516 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2519 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2523 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2526 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2527 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2528 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2529 followed. Closes: #85483
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2533 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2535 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2536 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2537 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2541 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2544 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2545 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2546 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2547 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2548 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2549 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2550 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2551 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2552 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2553 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2554 Closes: #88464, #77743
2555 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2556 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2557 us to deal with that gracefully.
2558 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2560 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2561 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2562 a while, Closes: #51225
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2566 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2572 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2575 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2579 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2583 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2588 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2591 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2592 don't make packlist files.
2593 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2594 debhelper coding standards.
2595 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2596 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2600 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2603 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2607 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2610 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2611 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2612 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2613 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2614 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2615 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2616 but is mildly deprecated.
2617 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2618 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2619 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2620 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2621 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2622 switching to statoverrides..
2623 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2624 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2625 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2626 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2627 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2628 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2630 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2631 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2632 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2633 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2634 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2635 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2636 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2637 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2638 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2640 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2641 variable names, pod man pages).
2642 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2643 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2644 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2645 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2646 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2647 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2648 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2652 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2658 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2665 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2668 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2672 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2674 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2675 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2676 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2680 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2682 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2683 they were previously ignored.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2687 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2689 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2690 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2694 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2696 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2697 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2698 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2702 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2704 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2708 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2710 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2711 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2715 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2717 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2718 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2719 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2720 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2721 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2722 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2723 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2724 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2725 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2726 it is an obsolete program.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2730 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2732 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2736 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2740 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2742 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2746 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2748 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2750 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2752 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2756 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2762 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * typo: Closes, #78567
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2768 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2774 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2780 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2783 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2784 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2785 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2786 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2787 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2791 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2794 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2799 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2802 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2803 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2804 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2805 backwards-compatability.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2809 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2812 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2813 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2814 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2815 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2816 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2817 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2819 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2820 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2821 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2823 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2825 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2826 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2827 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2828 should now be raised to severity important..
2829 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2830 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2834 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2837 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2842 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2848 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2854 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2860 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2867 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2870 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2871 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2872 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2873 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2877 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2883 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2886 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2887 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2888 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2889 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2890 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2891 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2896 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2899 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2903 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2909 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2912 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2917 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2920 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2921 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2922 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2923 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2927 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2931 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2934 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2937 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2938 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2941 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2943 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2944 the TODO entry about it.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2948 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2955 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2958 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2959 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2963 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2966 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2967 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2968 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2969 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2973 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2979 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2986 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2989 (this appears to be logal).
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2993 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2996 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2997 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2998 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2999 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3003 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3009 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3012 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3013 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3014 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3015 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3019 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3025 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3028 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3032 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3039 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3042 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3043 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3044 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3049 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3056 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3062 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3065 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3066 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3067 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3068 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3069 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3070 notice until v2 is complete.
3071 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3072 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3073 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3074 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3075 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3076 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3078 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3079 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3080 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3081 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3085 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3091 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3098 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3101 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3105 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3112 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3115 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3116 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3117 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3118 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3123 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3126 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3127 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3128 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3133 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3136 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3137 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3141 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3144 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3151 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3155 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3162 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3165 depend on the build and install targets.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3169 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3172 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3176 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3183 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3189 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3195 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3198 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3199 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3200 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3201 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3202 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3203 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3205 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3206 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3207 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3208 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3209 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3210 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3211 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3215 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3221 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3227 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3230 right place. Closes: #55065
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3241 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3244 * Copyright date updates.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3248 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3251 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3256 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3262 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3269 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3281 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3287 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3290 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3291 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3292 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3293 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3294 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3295 bits until all files have been registered.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_installmanpages:
3302 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3303 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3304 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3305 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3306 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3307 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3308 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3309 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3310 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3311 otherwise change the result at all.
3313 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3314 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3315 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3316 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3317 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3322 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3328 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3331 act on files that don't exist.
3332 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3333 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3334 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3336 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3337 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3338 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3339 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3343 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3349 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3355 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3358 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3365 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3367 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3368 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3369 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3373 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3376 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3377 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3378 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3379 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3380 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3381 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3382 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3384 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3386 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3390 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3397 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3403 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3409 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3412 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3416 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3422 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3428 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3431 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3432 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3433 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3434 I made some changes, though:
3435 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3436 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3437 that is a clear violation of policy.
3438 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3439 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3440 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3441 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3442 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3443 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3444 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3445 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3446 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3448 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3452 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3458 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3461 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3465 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3468 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3469 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3474 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3480 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3490 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3491 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3492 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3493 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3494 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3495 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3496 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3506 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3510 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3511 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3521 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3524 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3531 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3532 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3536 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3538 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3543 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3547 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3551 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3554 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3555 for the dependancies to be generated.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3559 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3562 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3566 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3569 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3570 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3571 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3576 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3579 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3580 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3590 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3599 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3612 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3613 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3614 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3615 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3616 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3617 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3618 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3619 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3620 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3621 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3622 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3623 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3627 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3630 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3631 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3633 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3634 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3635 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3636 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3637 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3638 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3640 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3641 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3648 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3652 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3659 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3662 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3670 for building debhelper.
3671 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3675 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3685 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3692 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3693 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3694 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3695 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3696 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3697 it's always available.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3701 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3704 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3705 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3706 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3713 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3714 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3724 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3727 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3731 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3740 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3741 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3742 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3749 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3754 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3757 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3758 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3760 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3761 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3765 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3771 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3777 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3780 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3787 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3788 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3790 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3797 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3798 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3799 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3806 things if CDPATH is set.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3816 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3819 seems to make sense for the transition.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3823 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3826 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3834 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3835 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3839 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3842 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3846 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3849 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3850 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3851 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3852 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3856 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3862 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3865 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3866 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3867 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3868 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3869 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3870 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3871 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3872 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3873 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3874 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3879 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3882 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3883 * README: mention doc/v2
3884 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3885 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3889 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3891 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3892 be using this script RSN.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3896 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3899 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3900 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3901 more than 1 init script.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3905 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3908 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3912 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Changed perl version detection.
3915 * Changed call to find.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3919 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3922 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3924 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3929 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Really include dh_installpam.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3935 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3938 * Wrote man page for same.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3942 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3945 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3946 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3951 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3958 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3961 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3962 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3963 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3964 x bit was being set!
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3968 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3971 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3972 well. (Closes: 38900)
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3976 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3979 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3980 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3984 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3990 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3997 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4003 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4006 help from Julian Gilbey.
4007 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4008 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4009 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4010 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4011 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4012 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4013 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4018 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4024 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4031 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4037 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4043 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4046 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4050 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4053 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4057 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4060 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4064 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4070 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4073 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4077 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4083 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4089 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4092 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4093 may be deleted. (#35845)
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4097 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Various man page enhancements.
4100 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4105 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4108 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4109 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4113 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4116 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4117 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4118 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4120 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4121 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4126 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4132 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Another very minor typo fix.
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4138 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * Very minor typo fix.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4144 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4147 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4148 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4152 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4158 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4161 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4162 variables properly (#34850).
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4166 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4172 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4175 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4176 (automatically generated by build process).
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4180 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4182 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4186 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4189 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4190 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4192 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4196 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4199 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4203 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * README: minor typo fix.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4209 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4212 leave it at that. :-)
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4216 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4222 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4228 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4231 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4232 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4233 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4237 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4240 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4244 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4247 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4251 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4254 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4255 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4256 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4257 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4261 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4264 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4265 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4266 Craig Small for spotting this.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4270 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4273 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4274 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4278 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4284 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4287 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4291 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4293 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4294 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4295 working on the last version of debhelper.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4299 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4302 being made. (#23255)
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4306 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4312 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4315 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4319 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4322 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4323 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4324 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4325 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4329 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4332 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4333 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4334 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4335 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4337 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4338 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4340 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4345 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4351 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4357 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4360 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4361 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4362 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4363 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4364 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4365 suidregister actually supports it.
4366 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4367 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4371 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4378 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4381 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4382 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4383 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4384 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4385 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4386 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4387 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4391 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4393 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4394 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4398 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4401 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4402 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4403 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4404 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4408 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4411 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4413 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4414 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4415 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4416 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4417 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4418 effect, either. (#30118)
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4422 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4428 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4431 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4432 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4436 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4442 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4445 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4446 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4447 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4448 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4452 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4455 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4456 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4460 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4466 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4469 packages, painlessly.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4473 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4479 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4485 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4491 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * The perl conversion is complete.
4495 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4497 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4498 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4499 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4504 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4507 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4508 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4509 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4513 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4516 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4518 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4520 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4521 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4525 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4528 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4529 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4533 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4539 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4542 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4543 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4544 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4545 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4546 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4550 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4553 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4554 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4555 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4556 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4560 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4563 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4567 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4570 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4571 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4572 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4573 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4574 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4575 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4576 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4577 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4581 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4587 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4590 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4591 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4592 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4597 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4600 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4607 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4611 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4614 sections of shared libraries.
4615 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4616 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4617 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4618 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4619 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4620 things you don't want them to.
4621 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4622 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4626 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4629 shared libraries. (#26414)
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4633 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4635 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4636 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4637 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4638 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4642 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4646 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4648 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4649 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4650 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4651 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4652 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4656 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4659 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4663 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4666 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4667 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4672 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4675 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4679 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4682 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4683 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4684 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4685 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4686 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4688 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4689 remove debian/files properly.
4690 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4691 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4692 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4693 * Removed bogus menu file.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4697 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4700 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4704 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4707 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4708 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4709 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4710 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4711 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4712 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4719 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4720 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4721 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4722 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4726 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4733 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4736 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4737 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4739 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4740 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4741 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4742 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4743 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4744 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4748 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4751 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4752 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4753 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4754 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4755 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4756 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4757 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4758 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4759 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4760 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4761 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4762 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4763 passed any switches.
4764 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4768 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4771 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4772 at all for a long while.
4773 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4774 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4775 large chunks in the process.
4776 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4777 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4778 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4783 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4786 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4788 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4793 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4796 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4797 that don't always have the same files in them.
4798 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4799 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4800 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4804 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4808 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4809 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4810 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4811 updating 27 man pages.
4812 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4813 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4814 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4815 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4816 programs act on. (#25247)
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4820 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4824 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4825 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4826 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4827 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4828 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4829 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4834 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4841 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4848 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4851 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4855 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4861 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4864 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4865 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4866 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4867 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4868 package by accident.
4869 * Is version 1.0 next?
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4873 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4876 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4877 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4881 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4884 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4885 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4886 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4887 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4888 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4890 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4895 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4898 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4899 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4903 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4906 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4910 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4913 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4914 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4919 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4925 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4928 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4929 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4934 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4940 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4943 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4944 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4945 past week. Thanks, guys!
4947 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4948 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4949 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4950 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4951 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4952 would do in the same situation.
4953 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4954 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4956 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4958 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4959 permissions changed.
4960 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4961 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4962 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4963 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4964 files are treated identically.
4965 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4966 * Minor man page fixes.
4967 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4968 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4969 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4973 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4976 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4977 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4978 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4979 use -X multiple times, too.
4980 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4981 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4985 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4988 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4989 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4993 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4996 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5000 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5003 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5004 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5005 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5006 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5007 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5008 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5009 shape if you're starting a new package.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5013 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5016 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5020 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5023 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5024 because of missing symlinks.
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5028 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5034 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5037 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5038 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5039 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5040 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5041 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5043 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5044 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5048 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5050 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5051 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5052 to be changed after the fact :-)
5053 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5057 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5059 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5060 no version string after the -V.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5064 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5066 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5067 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5072 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5075 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5079 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5082 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5083 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5084 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5085 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5086 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5087 I always welcome corrections!
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5091 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5097 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5100 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5101 * Documented this new switch.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5105 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5108 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5109 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5110 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5111 no packages use the old behavior.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5115 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5118 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5119 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5123 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5126 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5130 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5136 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5139 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5143 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5146 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5147 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5148 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5152 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5158 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5161 into the source package by accident.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5165 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5168 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5169 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5170 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5171 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5172 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5173 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5178 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5182 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5183 inspired to implement some of it.
5184 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5188 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5191 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5195 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5198 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5199 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5203 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5206 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5207 have done.) (#17598)
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5211 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5217 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5223 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5226 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5230 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5233 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5234 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5238 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5241 argument processor in perl.
5242 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5243 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5244 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5245 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5249 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5252 type directories. (#16933)
5253 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5254 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5255 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5256 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5257 are supported. (#16935)
5258 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5263 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5266 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5270 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5274 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5275 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5276 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5277 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5278 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5279 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5283 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5286 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5287 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5289 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5290 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5291 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5292 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5293 a given package, or -i or -a.
5294 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5295 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5296 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5297 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5298 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5299 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5300 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5301 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5302 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5304 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5305 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5306 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5310 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5313 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5314 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5319 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5322 does not have a section.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5326 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5329 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5330 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5331 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5335 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * Fixed typo #16215.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5341 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5344 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5345 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5346 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5347 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5348 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5353 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5356 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5357 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5358 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5363 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5369 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5375 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5378 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5379 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5380 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5381 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5382 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5383 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5387 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5393 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5396 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5400 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5403 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5404 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5405 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5409 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5412 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5416 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5422 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5425 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5429 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5432 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5436 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5442 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5445 postinst, postrm, etc.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5449 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5455 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5458 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5459 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5460 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5461 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5462 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5466 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5469 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5470 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5474 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5477 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5481 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5484 installing package files into.
5485 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5490 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5494 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5498 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5504 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5507 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5511 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5514 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5515 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5516 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5517 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5521 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5523 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5524 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5525 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5526 multiple binary packages.
5527 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5528 should rebuild them with this version.
5529 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5533 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5536 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5540 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5543 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5547 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5550 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5551 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5552 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5553 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5554 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5555 debian/README.debian.
5556 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5557 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5558 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5559 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5560 in a few situations.)
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5564 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5570 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5576 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5579 * Fixed several man pages.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5583 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5586 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5587 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5591 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5594 is ready for general use.
5595 * Added man pages for all commands.
5596 * Multiple binary package support.
5597 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5598 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5599 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5601 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5602 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5603 auto-installed as parameters.
5604 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5606 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5609 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5610 the package build directory it is to act on.
5611 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5612 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5613 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5617 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5619 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5620 ready to replace debstd.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400