1 debhelper (7.0.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
4 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
5 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
7 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
8 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
9 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
10 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
11 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
12 planned but not yet implemented.)
13 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
14 if the Makefile has such a target.
15 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
16 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
17 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
18 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
19 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
20 but not yet implemented.)
21 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
22 recommended default, especially when using dh.
23 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
24 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
25 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
27 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
29 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
30 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
32 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
33 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
34 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:54:20 -0400
39 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
42 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
43 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
47 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
49 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
50 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
51 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
55 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
61 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
67 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
70 just those installed by the program.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
74 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
77 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
78 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
82 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
85 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
86 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
87 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
88 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
92 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
95 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
96 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
100 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
103 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
104 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
108 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
111 with policy. Closes: #461392
112 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
113 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
114 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
115 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
116 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
120 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
123 Closes: #460340, #460351
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
127 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
130 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
131 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
132 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
133 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
137 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
140 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
141 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
142 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
143 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
144 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
145 package build directory won't work.
146 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
147 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
148 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
149 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
150 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
151 mode. Closes: #459426
152 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
157 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
160 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
164 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
168 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
169 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
170 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
171 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
172 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
173 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
177 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
180 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
181 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
182 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
183 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
187 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
190 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
191 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
192 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
193 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
194 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
198 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
201 debian/package.triggers files.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
205 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
208 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
212 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
215 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
216 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
217 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
218 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
223 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
226 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
230 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
233 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
234 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
236 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
241 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
245 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
246 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
247 * Typo. Closes: #441272
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
251 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
258 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
265 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
268 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
270 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
271 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
272 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
274 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
275 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
276 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
280 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
283 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
284 * Update urls to web page.
285 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
287 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
288 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
292 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
295 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
296 - typo in alternatives call
297 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
299 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
300 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
304 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
307 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
312 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
318 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
324 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
327 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
329 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
330 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
331 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
332 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
333 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
334 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
335 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
336 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
337 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
338 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
339 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
343 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
346 package install. Closes: #415717
347 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
348 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
349 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
350 script and then remove the python files.
351 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
352 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
353 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
354 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
355 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
356 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
357 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
358 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
359 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
360 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
361 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
362 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
363 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
367 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Correct typo in french translation
373 * Typo. Closes: #400571
374 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
376 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
378 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
379 Closes: #406921, #381940
380 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
382 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
383 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
384 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
385 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
386 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
387 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
388 specified). Closes: #381851
389 * Misc minor changes.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
393 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
400 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
401 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
405 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
411 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
412 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
415 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
416 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
418 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
419 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
420 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
421 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
425 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
428 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
431 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
435 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
441 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
447 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
448 a difficult situation.
449 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
450 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
451 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
452 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
453 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
454 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
455 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
456 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
457 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
458 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
462 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Non-maintainer upload.
465 * Update of dh_python
466 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
467 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
469 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
470 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
471 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
472 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
473 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
475 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
477 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Non-maintainer upload.
480 * Update of dh_python
481 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
482 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
483 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
484 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
485 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
486 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
487 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
488 specific python version. Closes: #373853
489 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
490 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
492 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
493 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
494 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
495 the not too-distant future).
496 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
497 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
498 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
499 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
500 thus made the build fail.
502 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
504 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Non-maintainer upload.
507 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
509 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
511 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
514 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
515 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
516 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
517 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
518 package. Closes: #301424
519 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
520 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
521 fonts). Closes: #372686
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
525 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
531 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
532 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
533 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
534 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
535 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
536 above, but already depends on that.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
540 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
543 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
544 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
545 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
546 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
547 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
551 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
557 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
563 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
564 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
568 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
571 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
575 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
579 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
580 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
581 new version (0.24.1).
582 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
583 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
586 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
587 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
588 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
589 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
590 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
591 new directory on their own.
592 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
593 * Fix broken directory removal code.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
597 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
600 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
601 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
602 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
603 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
607 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
610 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
611 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
612 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
613 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
614 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
618 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
624 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Typo. Closes: #358904
628 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
629 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
633 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
634 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
638 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
640 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
641 || exit 0 instead of the intended
643 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
644 ignored. Closes: #337664
646 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
651 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
657 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
662 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
663 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
664 the dh_installdebconf manpage
665 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
666 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
667 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
668 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
672 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
675 version. Closes: #350607
676 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
677 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
678 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
679 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
683 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
686 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
687 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
688 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
692 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
699 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Minor bug fix from last release.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
705 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
708 language guessing. Closes: #193221
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
715 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
716 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
717 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
718 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
719 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
720 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
724 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
727 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
728 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
733 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
736 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
740 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
743 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
747 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
750 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
751 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
752 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
753 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
754 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
755 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
759 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
762 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
763 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
764 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
765 link. Closes: #346405
766 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
769 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
770 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
771 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
772 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
773 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
774 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
778 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
785 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
787 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
791 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
794 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
798 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
801 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
806 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
810 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
811 installed. Closes: #342033
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
815 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
818 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
819 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
820 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
825 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
831 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
837 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
841 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
842 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
843 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
847 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
850 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
855 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
862 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
868 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
870 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
871 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
872 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
873 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
874 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
875 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
876 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
877 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
879 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
883 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
886 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
887 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
891 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
894 in standard man dirs.
895 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
899 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
905 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
908 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
913 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
920 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
927 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
930 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
931 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
935 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
937 * NMU with maintainer approval.
938 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
939 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
940 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
942 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
944 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
950 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
956 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
959 mode. Closes: #324161
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
963 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
966 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
967 behavior change. Closes: #249815
968 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
969 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
974 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
977 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
978 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
979 is necesary for sanity.
980 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
981 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
986 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
988 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
989 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
993 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
996 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1000 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1006 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1009 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1010 released, so use at your own risk.
1011 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1012 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1014 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1015 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1016 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1017 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1018 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1019 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1020 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1021 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1022 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1023 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1024 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1025 including twice per config file line now..
1026 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1027 and simplfy the rules file.
1028 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1029 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1030 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1032 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1033 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1037 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1040 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1044 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1047 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1051 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1054 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1058 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1061 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1062 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1063 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1064 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1065 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1066 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1070 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1073 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1074 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1075 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1080 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1083 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1084 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1089 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1092 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1093 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1094 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1099 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1102 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1103 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1104 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1108 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1114 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1121 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1124 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1125 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1126 unknown. Closes: #282924
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1130 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1137 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Spanish man page updates.
1140 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1145 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1151 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1154 * dh_desktop: reindent
1155 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1156 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1160 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1166 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1168 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1172 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1174 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1178 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1181 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1182 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1186 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1192 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1198 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1205 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1208 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1212 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1215 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1216 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1217 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1218 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1219 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1220 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1222 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1223 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1224 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1225 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1226 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1227 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1228 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1229 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1230 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1231 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1232 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1233 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1234 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1235 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1236 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1237 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1241 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1251 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1255 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1258 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1262 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1265 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1269 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1272 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1276 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1282 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1288 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1294 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1297 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1298 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1299 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1303 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1306 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1310 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1313 but occasionally right and necessary.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1317 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1320 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1321 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1322 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1323 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1324 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1328 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1331 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1333 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1334 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1335 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1336 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1337 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1338 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1339 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1340 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1341 postinst scripts for udebs.
1342 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1346 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1349 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1351 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1352 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1356 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1362 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1369 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1376 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1379 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1383 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1386 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1390 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1393 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1396 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1397 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1401 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1407 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1410 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1414 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1417 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1418 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1419 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1421 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1423 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1424 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1425 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1429 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1432 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1437 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1440 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1441 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1442 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1447 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1453 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1459 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1462 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1463 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1464 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1465 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1466 associated -dbg packages.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1473 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1477 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1480 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1484 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1487 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1491 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1494 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1499 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1502 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1509 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1514 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1517 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1525 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1526 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1527 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1528 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1529 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1530 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1531 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1532 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1533 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1534 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1538 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1541 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1546 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1549 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1550 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1554 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1557 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1558 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1563 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1566 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1570 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1573 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1577 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1580 out section number. Closes: #204731
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1584 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1591 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1597 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1603 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1606 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1607 removal. Closes: #204286
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1611 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1614 renaming. Closes: #203548
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1621 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1622 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1638 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1644 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1647 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1648 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1649 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1653 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1656 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1657 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1677 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1685 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1689 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1692 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1694 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1695 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1702 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1707 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1710 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1714 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1720 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1722 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1726 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1729 it break hard links (see #188663).
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1736 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1740 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1746 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1750 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1751 debconf-mergetemplates
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1755 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1758 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1762 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1765 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1769 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1772 * Update debhelper(1).
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1776 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1779 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1780 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1781 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1782 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1783 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1787 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1790 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1791 the shell. Closes: #178524
1792 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1796 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1799 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1803 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1806 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1810 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1813 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1814 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1815 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1816 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1821 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1824 files from installation.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1828 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1831 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1832 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1836 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1839 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1843 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1846 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1850 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1856 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1862 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1866 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1867 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1869 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1873 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1876 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1877 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1878 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1879 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1883 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1886 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1890 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1893 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1894 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1898 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1902 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1917 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1918 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1919 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1924 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1927 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1928 practice. Closes: #163303
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1948 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1950 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1951 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1952 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1953 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1954 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1961 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1982 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2015 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2016 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2017 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2018 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2039 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2040 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2047 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2048 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2049 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2050 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2051 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2058 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2060 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2068 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2075 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2076 right thing. Closes: #150644
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Stupid, evil typo.
2083 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2097 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2098 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2112 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2119 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2120 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2125 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2128 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2141 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2142 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2152 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Removing perl warning message.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2161 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2162 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2163 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2164 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2165 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2166 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2167 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2168 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2188 debconf-mergetemplate.
2189 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2190 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2197 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2198 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2199 dh_install, which ...
2200 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2201 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2202 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2203 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2204 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2205 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2206 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2207 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2208 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2209 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2210 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2211 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2212 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2213 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2214 other minor changes.
2215 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2216 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2217 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2218 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2219 course there's -X ..)
2220 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2221 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2222 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2224 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2225 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2226 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2227 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2228 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2233 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2239 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2242 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2246 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2252 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2258 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2264 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2270 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2273 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2274 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2275 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2276 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2278 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2279 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2283 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2289 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2292 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2296 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2299 upset. Closes: #131322
2301 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2303 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2306 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2307 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2308 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2309 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2310 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2311 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2312 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2313 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2314 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2315 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2316 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2317 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2318 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2319 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2320 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2322 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2326 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2329 - Better indenting of generated code.
2330 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2334 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2338 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2339 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2340 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2341 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2342 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2343 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2344 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2348 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2351 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2355 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2358 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2359 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2360 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2361 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2362 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2363 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2364 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2365 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2366 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2367 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2368 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2369 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2370 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2371 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2372 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2377 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2383 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2386 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2387 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2391 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2394 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2395 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2399 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2405 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2408 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2409 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2410 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2411 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2412 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2417 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2423 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2426 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2430 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2433 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2438 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2444 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2447 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2451 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2457 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2461 Also some indentation fixes.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2465 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2468 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2469 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2470 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2471 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2472 Closes: #106514, #85520
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2476 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2482 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2488 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2494 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2500 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2506 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2509 change it in debhelper v4..
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2513 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2519 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2522 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2526 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2529 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2533 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2539 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2542 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2543 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2544 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2545 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2546 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2547 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2548 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2549 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2550 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2551 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2552 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2553 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2557 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2560 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2564 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2571 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2574 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2575 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2576 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2577 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2578 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2579 program those options go to. So, for example,
2580 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2581 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2582 something complex. Closes: #89311
2583 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2587 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2590 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2591 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2592 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2596 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2599 through loop. Closes: #98598
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2603 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Missing semi-colon.
2606 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2607 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2611 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2614 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2615 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2616 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2620 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2623 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2624 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2628 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2631 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2635 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2638 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2639 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2643 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2646 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2647 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2648 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2652 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2655 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2656 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2657 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2661 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2664 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2668 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2674 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2680 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2686 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2692 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2695 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2699 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2702 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2703 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2704 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2705 followed. Closes: #85483
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2709 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2711 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2712 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2713 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2717 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2720 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2721 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2722 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2723 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2724 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2725 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2726 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2727 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2728 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2729 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2730 Closes: #88464, #77743
2731 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2732 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2733 us to deal with that gracefully.
2734 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2736 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2737 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2738 a while, Closes: #51225
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2742 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2748 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2751 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2755 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2759 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2764 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2767 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2768 don't make packlist files.
2769 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2770 debhelper coding standards.
2771 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2772 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2776 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2779 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2783 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2786 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2787 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2788 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2789 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2790 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2791 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2792 but is mildly deprecated.
2793 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2794 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2795 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2796 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2797 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2798 switching to statoverrides..
2799 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2800 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2801 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2802 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2803 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2804 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2806 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2807 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2808 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2809 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2810 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2811 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2812 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2813 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2814 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2816 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2817 variable names, pod man pages).
2818 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2819 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2820 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2821 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2822 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2823 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2824 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2828 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2834 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2841 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2844 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2848 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2850 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2851 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2852 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2856 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2858 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2859 they were previously ignored.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2863 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2865 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2866 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2870 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2872 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2873 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2874 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2878 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2880 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2884 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2886 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2887 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2891 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2893 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2894 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2895 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2896 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2897 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2898 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2899 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2900 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2901 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2902 it is an obsolete program.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2906 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2908 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2912 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2916 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2918 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2922 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2924 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2926 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2928 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2932 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2938 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * typo: Closes, #78567
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2944 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2950 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2956 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2959 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2960 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2961 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2962 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2963 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2967 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2970 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2975 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2978 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2979 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2980 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2981 backwards-compatability.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2985 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2988 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2989 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2990 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2991 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2992 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2993 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2995 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2996 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2997 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2999 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3001 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3002 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3003 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3004 should now be raised to severity important..
3005 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3006 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3010 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3013 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3018 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3024 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3030 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3036 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3043 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3046 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3047 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3048 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3049 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3053 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3059 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3062 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3063 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3064 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3065 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3066 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3067 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3072 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3075 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3079 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3085 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3088 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3093 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3096 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3097 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3098 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3099 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3103 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3107 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3110 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3113 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3114 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3117 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3119 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3120 the TODO entry about it.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3124 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3131 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3134 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3135 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3139 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3142 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3143 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3144 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3145 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3149 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3155 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3162 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3165 (this appears to be logal).
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3169 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3172 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3173 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3174 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3175 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3179 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3185 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3188 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3189 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3190 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3191 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3195 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3201 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3204 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3208 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3215 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3218 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3219 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3220 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3225 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3232 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3238 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3241 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3242 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3243 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3244 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3245 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3246 notice until v2 is complete.
3247 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3248 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3249 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3250 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3251 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3252 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3254 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3255 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3256 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3257 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3261 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3267 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3274 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3277 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3281 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3288 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3291 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3292 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3293 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3294 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3299 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3302 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3303 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3304 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3309 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3312 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3313 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3317 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3320 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3324 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3327 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3331 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3338 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3341 depend on the build and install targets.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3345 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3348 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3352 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3359 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3365 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3371 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3374 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3375 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3376 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3377 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3378 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3379 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3381 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3382 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3383 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3384 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3385 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3386 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3387 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3391 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3397 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3403 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3406 right place. Closes: #55065
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3410 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3417 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3420 * Copyright date updates.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3424 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3427 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3432 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3438 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3445 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3451 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3457 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3463 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3466 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3467 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3468 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3469 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3470 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3471 bits until all files have been registered.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3475 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_installmanpages:
3478 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3479 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3480 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3481 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3482 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3483 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3484 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3485 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3486 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3487 otherwise change the result at all.
3489 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3490 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3491 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3492 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3493 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3498 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3504 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3507 act on files that don't exist.
3508 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3509 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3510 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3512 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3513 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3514 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3515 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3519 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3525 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3531 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3534 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3538 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3541 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3543 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3544 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3545 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3549 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3552 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3553 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3554 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3555 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3556 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3557 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3558 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3560 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3562 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3566 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3573 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3588 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3598 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3604 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3607 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3608 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3609 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3610 I made some changes, though:
3611 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3612 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3613 that is a clear violation of policy.
3614 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3615 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3616 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3617 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3618 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3619 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3620 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3621 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3622 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3624 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3628 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3637 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3644 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3645 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3650 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3656 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3666 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3667 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3668 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3669 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3670 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3671 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3672 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3686 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3687 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3700 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3707 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3708 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3714 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3723 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3730 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3731 for the dependancies to be generated.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3738 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3745 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3746 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3747 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3752 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3755 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3756 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3760 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3766 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3772 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3775 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3779 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3785 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3788 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3789 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3790 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3791 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3792 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3793 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3794 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3795 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3796 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3797 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3798 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3799 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3806 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3807 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3809 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3810 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3811 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3812 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3813 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3814 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3816 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3817 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3821 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3824 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3828 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3835 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3838 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3846 for building debhelper.
3847 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3851 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3858 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3861 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3865 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3868 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3869 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3870 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3871 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3872 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3873 it's always available.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3877 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3880 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3881 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3882 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3889 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3890 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3903 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3916 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3917 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3918 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3925 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3933 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3934 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3936 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3937 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3947 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3953 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3956 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3960 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3963 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3964 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3966 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3970 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3973 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3974 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3975 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3979 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3982 things if CDPATH is set.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3995 seems to make sense for the transition.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4002 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4010 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4011 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4018 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4025 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4026 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4027 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4028 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4032 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4041 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4042 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4043 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4044 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4045 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4046 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4047 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4048 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4049 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4050 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4055 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4058 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4059 * README: mention doc/v2
4060 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4061 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4065 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4067 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4068 be using this script RSN.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4072 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4075 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4076 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4077 more than 1 init script.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4081 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4084 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4088 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Changed perl version detection.
4091 * Changed call to find.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4095 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4098 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4100 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4105 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Really include dh_installpam.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4111 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4114 * Wrote man page for same.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4118 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4121 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4122 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4127 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4134 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4137 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4138 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4139 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4140 x bit was being set!
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4144 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4147 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4148 well. (Closes: 38900)
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4152 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4155 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4156 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4160 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4166 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4173 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4179 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4182 help from Julian Gilbey.
4183 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4184 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4185 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4186 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4187 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4188 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4189 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4194 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4200 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4207 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4213 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4219 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4222 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4226 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4229 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4233 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4236 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4240 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4246 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4249 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4253 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4259 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4265 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4268 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4269 may be deleted. (#35845)
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4273 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Various man page enhancements.
4276 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4281 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4284 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4285 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4289 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4292 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4293 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4294 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4296 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4297 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4302 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4308 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Another very minor typo fix.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4314 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Very minor typo fix.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4320 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4323 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4324 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4328 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4334 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4337 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4338 variables properly (#34850).
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4342 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4348 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4351 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4352 (automatically generated by build process).
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4356 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4358 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4362 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4365 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4366 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4368 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4372 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4375 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4379 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * README: minor typo fix.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4385 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4388 leave it at that. :-)
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4392 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4398 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4404 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4407 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4408 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4409 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4413 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4416 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4420 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4423 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4427 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4430 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4431 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4432 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4433 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4437 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4440 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4441 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4442 Craig Small for spotting this.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4446 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4449 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4450 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4454 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4460 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4463 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4467 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4469 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4470 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4471 working on the last version of debhelper.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4475 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4478 being made. (#23255)
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4482 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4488 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4491 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4495 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4498 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4499 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4500 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4501 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4505 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4508 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4509 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4510 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4511 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4513 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4514 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4516 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4521 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4527 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4533 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4536 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4537 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4538 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4539 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4540 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4541 suidregister actually supports it.
4542 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4543 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4547 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4554 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4557 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4558 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4559 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4560 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4561 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4562 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4563 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4567 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4569 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4570 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4574 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4577 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4578 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4579 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4580 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4584 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4587 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4589 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4590 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4591 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4592 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4593 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4594 effect, either. (#30118)
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4598 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4604 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4607 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4608 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4612 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4618 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4621 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4622 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4623 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4624 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4628 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4631 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4632 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4636 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4642 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4645 packages, painlessly.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4649 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4655 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4661 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4667 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * The perl conversion is complete.
4671 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4673 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4674 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4675 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4680 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4683 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4684 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4685 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4689 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4692 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4694 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4696 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4697 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4701 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4704 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4705 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4718 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4719 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4720 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4721 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4722 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4726 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4729 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4730 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4731 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4732 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4736 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4739 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4743 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4746 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4747 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4748 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4749 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4750 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4751 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4752 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4753 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4757 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4763 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4766 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4767 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4768 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4773 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4776 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4780 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4783 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4787 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4790 sections of shared libraries.
4791 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4792 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4793 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4794 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4795 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4796 things you don't want them to.
4797 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4798 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4802 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4805 shared libraries. (#26414)
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4809 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4811 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4812 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4813 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4814 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4818 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4822 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4824 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4825 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4826 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4827 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4828 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4832 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4835 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4839 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4842 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4843 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4848 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4851 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4855 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4858 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4859 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4860 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4861 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4862 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4864 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4865 remove debian/files properly.
4866 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4867 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4868 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4869 * Removed bogus menu file.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4873 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4876 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4880 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4883 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4884 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4885 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4886 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4887 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4888 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4892 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4895 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4896 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4897 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4898 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4902 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4909 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4912 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4913 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4915 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4916 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4917 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4918 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4919 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4920 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4924 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4927 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4928 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4929 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4930 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4931 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4932 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4933 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4934 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4935 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4936 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4937 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4938 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4939 passed any switches.
4940 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4944 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4947 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4948 at all for a long while.
4949 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4950 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4951 large chunks in the process.
4952 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4953 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4954 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4959 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4962 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4964 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4969 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4972 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4973 that don't always have the same files in them.
4974 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4975 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4976 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4980 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4984 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4985 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4986 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4987 updating 27 man pages.
4988 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4989 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4990 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4991 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4992 programs act on. (#25247)
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4996 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5000 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5001 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5002 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5003 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5004 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5005 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5010 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5017 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5024 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5027 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5031 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5037 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5040 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5041 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5042 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5043 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5044 package by accident.
5045 * Is version 1.0 next?
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5049 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5052 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5053 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5057 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5060 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5061 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5062 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5063 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5064 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5066 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5071 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5074 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5075 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5079 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5082 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5086 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5089 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5090 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5095 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5101 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5104 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5105 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5110 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5116 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5119 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5120 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5121 past week. Thanks, guys!
5123 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5124 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5125 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5126 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5127 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5128 would do in the same situation.
5129 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5130 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5132 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5134 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5135 permissions changed.
5136 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5137 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5138 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5139 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5140 files are treated identically.
5141 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5142 * Minor man page fixes.
5143 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5144 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5145 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5149 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5152 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5153 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5154 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5155 use -X multiple times, too.
5156 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5157 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5161 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5164 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5165 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5169 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5172 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5176 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5179 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5180 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5181 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5182 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5183 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5184 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5185 shape if you're starting a new package.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5189 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5192 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5196 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5199 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5200 because of missing symlinks.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5204 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5210 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5213 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5214 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5215 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5216 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5217 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5219 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5220 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5224 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5226 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5227 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5228 to be changed after the fact :-)
5229 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5233 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5236 no version string after the -V.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5240 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5242 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5243 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5248 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5251 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5255 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5258 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5259 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5260 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5261 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5262 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5263 I always welcome corrections!
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5267 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5273 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5276 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5277 * Documented this new switch.
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5281 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5284 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5285 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5286 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5287 no packages use the old behavior.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5291 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5294 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5295 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5299 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5302 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5306 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5312 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5315 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5319 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5322 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5323 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5324 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5328 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5334 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5337 into the source package by accident.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5341 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5344 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5345 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5346 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5347 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5348 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5349 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5354 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5358 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5359 inspired to implement some of it.
5360 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5364 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5367 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5371 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5374 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5375 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5379 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5382 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5383 have done.) (#17598)
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5387 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5393 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5399 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5402 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5406 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5409 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5410 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5414 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5417 argument processor in perl.
5418 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5419 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5420 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5421 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5425 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5428 type directories. (#16933)
5429 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5430 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5431 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5432 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5433 are supported. (#16935)
5434 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5439 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5442 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5446 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5450 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5451 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5452 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5453 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5454 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5455 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5459 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5462 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5463 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5465 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5466 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5467 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5468 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5469 a given package, or -i or -a.
5470 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5471 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5472 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5473 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5474 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5475 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5476 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5477 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5478 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5480 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5481 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5482 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5486 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5489 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5490 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5495 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5498 does not have a section.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5502 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5505 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5506 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5507 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5511 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Fixed typo #16215.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5517 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5520 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5521 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5522 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5523 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5524 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5529 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5532 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5533 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5534 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5539 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5545 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5551 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5554 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5555 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5556 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5557 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5558 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5559 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5563 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5569 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5572 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5576 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5579 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5580 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5581 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5585 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5588 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5592 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5598 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5601 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5605 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5608 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5612 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5618 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5621 postinst, postrm, etc.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5625 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5631 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5634 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5635 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5636 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5637 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5638 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5642 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5645 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5646 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5650 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5653 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5657 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5660 installing package files into.
5661 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5666 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5670 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5674 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5680 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5683 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5687 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5690 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5691 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5692 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5693 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5697 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5699 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5700 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5701 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5702 multiple binary packages.
5703 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5704 should rebuild them with this version.
5705 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5709 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5712 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5716 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5719 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5723 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5726 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5727 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5728 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5729 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5730 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5731 debian/README.debian.
5732 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5733 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5734 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5735 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5736 in a few situations.)
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5740 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5746 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5752 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5755 * Fixed several man pages.
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5759 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5762 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5763 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5767 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5770 is ready for general use.
5771 * Added man pages for all commands.
5772 * Multiple binary package support.
5773 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5774 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5775 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5777 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5778 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5779 auto-installed as parameters.
5780 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5782 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5785 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5786 the package build directory it is to act on.
5787 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5788 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5789 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5793 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5795 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5796 ready to replace debstd.
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400