1 debhelper (7.9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
8 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
9 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
10 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
11 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
12 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
13 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
14 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
15 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
16 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
17 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
18 (genesis) still uses them.
19 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
20 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
21 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
22 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
23 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
24 commands. (See #570039)
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
28 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
32 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
33 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
34 in control file or debhelper config files.
35 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
39 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
42 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
43 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
47 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
50 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
54 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
57 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
58 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
62 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Updated French translation.
65 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
66 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
67 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
68 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
70 * Typo. Closes: #571968
71 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
72 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
73 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
74 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
75 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
76 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
77 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
78 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
79 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
81 * dh: Improve documentation.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
85 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
87 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
88 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
89 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
93 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
96 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
100 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
103 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
107 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
110 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
111 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
112 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
113 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
114 options that they do not support.
115 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
116 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
117 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
118 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
119 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
120 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
125 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
129 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
130 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
131 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
132 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
133 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
134 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
135 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
136 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
137 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
141 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
144 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
145 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
146 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
147 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
151 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Typo. Closes: #558654
154 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
155 installed. Closes: #558782
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
159 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
162 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
163 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
164 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
165 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
166 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
170 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
172 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
173 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
174 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
175 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
179 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
182 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
183 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
187 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
189 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
193 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
195 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
196 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
197 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
198 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
199 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
200 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
201 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
202 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
203 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
204 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
205 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
206 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
207 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
208 time soon.) Closes: #554509
209 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
211 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
212 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
213 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
214 document id. Closes: #555677
215 * Typo. Closes: #555659
216 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
217 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
218 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
219 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
221 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
222 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
223 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
228 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
231 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
232 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
233 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
234 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
235 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
236 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
237 translation (#494300 part 2)
240 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
242 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
243 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
244 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
245 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
246 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
250 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
253 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
254 (It was only run once due to logging.)
255 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
256 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
257 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
258 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
259 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
260 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
261 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
262 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
263 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
264 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
268 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
272 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
275 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
276 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
280 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
283 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
284 flag with arch all/any packages.
285 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
286 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
287 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
288 situation. Closes: #540794
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
292 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
296 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
297 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
298 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
299 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
300 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
303 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
304 the default. Closes: #538201
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
309 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
313 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
314 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
315 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
316 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
317 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
319 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
320 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
321 * Above Closes: #491117
322 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
327 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
333 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
334 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
335 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
339 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
342 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
343 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
344 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
345 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
346 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
351 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
354 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
355 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
359 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
361 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
365 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
367 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
368 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
370 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
371 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
372 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
376 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
378 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
379 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
383 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
389 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
391 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
392 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
393 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
398 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
400 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
404 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
407 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
408 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
409 created by using `python' first during build and install.
411 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
416 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
418 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
422 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
424 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
425 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
429 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
431 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
435 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
437 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
441 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
443 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
444 contributed by Modestas Vainius
445 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
446 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
447 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
448 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
449 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
450 that support it. Closes: #480577
451 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
452 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
453 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
455 - Adds support for cmake.
456 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
457 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
459 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
461 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
462 that use them. The options are:
463 --sourcedir, --destdir
464 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
465 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
466 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
467 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
468 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
472 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
478 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
481 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
482 default. Closes: #537140
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
486 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
489 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
490 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
494 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
497 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
501 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
504 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
508 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
511 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
513 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
514 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
515 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
519 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
522 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
523 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
524 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
528 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
531 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
532 warning or deprecation message.
533 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
534 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
535 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
536 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
537 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
538 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
539 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
540 Closes: #534639, #357434
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
544 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
550 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
553 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
554 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
555 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
556 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
558 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
559 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
560 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
564 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
570 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
577 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
580 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
584 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
588 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
589 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
591 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
592 file support. Closes: #494914
593 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
597 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
600 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
601 parameters. Closes: #527256
602 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
603 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
604 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
608 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
612 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
613 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
614 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
618 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
621 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
622 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
623 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
627 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
630 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
631 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
633 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
634 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
635 by triggers). Closes: #521181
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
639 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
643 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
647 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
650 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
651 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
652 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
653 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
658 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
664 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
667 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
668 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
669 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
670 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
671 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
673 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
674 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
675 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
676 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
677 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
678 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
682 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
685 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
686 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
687 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
688 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
689 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
691 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
695 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
697 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
701 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
703 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
704 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
705 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
706 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
707 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
708 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
709 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
710 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
711 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
712 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
713 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
717 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
719 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
720 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
722 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
723 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
724 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
725 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
727 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
728 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
732 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
734 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
735 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
736 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
737 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
738 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
739 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
740 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
742 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
743 that uses them. Affected options are:
744 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
745 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
746 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
747 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
748 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
749 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
750 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
751 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
752 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
753 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
754 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
755 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
759 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
766 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
772 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
774 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
775 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
777 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
778 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
779 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
780 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
781 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
783 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
785 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
786 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
787 rules (see bug #509756).
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
791 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
797 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
798 * Typo. Closes: #493062
799 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
800 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
804 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
807 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
808 empty files. Closes: #490937
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
812 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
818 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
825 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
828 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
829 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
830 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
831 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
836 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
838 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
839 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
840 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
841 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
845 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
848 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
849 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
850 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
851 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
852 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
856 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
863 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
865 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
866 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
867 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
868 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
869 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
870 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
871 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
872 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
873 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
874 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
878 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
881 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
882 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
883 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
884 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
886 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
887 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
888 breaking backwards compatibility.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
892 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
895 message in perl 5.10.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
899 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
905 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Convert copyright file to new format.
908 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
912 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
915 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
919 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
922 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
923 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
924 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
925 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
926 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
927 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
928 logging by dh_listpackages.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
932 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
935 run and there are no packages of that type.
936 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
937 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
938 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
939 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
941 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
942 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
946 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
948 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
949 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
950 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
954 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
957 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
958 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
960 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
961 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
962 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
963 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
964 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
965 planned but not yet implemented.)
966 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
967 if the Makefile has such a target.
968 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
969 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
970 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
971 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
972 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
973 but not yet implemented.)
974 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
975 recommended default, especially when using dh.
976 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
977 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
978 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
980 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
982 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
983 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
985 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
986 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
987 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
992 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
995 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
996 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1000 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1002 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1003 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1004 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1008 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1014 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1020 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1023 just those installed by the program.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1027 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1030 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1031 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1035 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1038 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1039 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1040 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1041 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1045 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1048 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1049 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1053 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1056 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1057 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1061 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1064 with policy. Closes: #461392
1065 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1066 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1067 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1068 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1069 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1073 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1076 Closes: #460340, #460351
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1080 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1083 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1084 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1085 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1086 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1090 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1093 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1094 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1095 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1096 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1097 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1098 package build directory won't work.
1099 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1100 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1101 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1102 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1103 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1104 mode. Closes: #459426
1105 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1110 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1113 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1117 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1121 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1122 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1123 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1124 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1125 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1126 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1130 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1133 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1134 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1135 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1136 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1140 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1143 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1144 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1145 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1146 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1147 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1151 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1154 debian/package.triggers files.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1158 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1161 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1165 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1168 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1169 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1170 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1171 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1176 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1179 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1183 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1186 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1187 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1189 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1194 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1198 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1199 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1200 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1204 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1211 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1218 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1221 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1223 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1224 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1225 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1227 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1228 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1229 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1233 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1236 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1237 * Update urls to web page.
1238 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1239 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1240 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1241 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1245 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1248 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1249 - typo in alternatives call
1250 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1252 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1253 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1257 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1260 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1265 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1271 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1277 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1280 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1282 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1283 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1284 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1285 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1286 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1287 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1288 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1289 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1290 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1291 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1292 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1296 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1299 package install. Closes: #415717
1300 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1301 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1302 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1303 script and then remove the python files.
1304 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1305 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1306 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1307 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1308 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1309 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1310 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1311 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1312 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1313 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1314 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1315 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1316 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1320 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Correct typo in french translation
1326 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1327 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1329 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1331 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1332 Closes: #406921, #381940
1333 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1335 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1336 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1337 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1338 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1339 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1340 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1341 specified). Closes: #381851
1342 * Misc minor changes.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1346 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1353 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1354 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1358 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1364 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1365 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1368 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1369 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1371 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1372 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1373 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1374 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1378 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1381 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1384 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1388 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1394 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1400 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1401 a difficult situation.
1402 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1403 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1404 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1405 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1406 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1407 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1408 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1409 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1410 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1411 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1415 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Non-maintainer upload.
1418 * Update of dh_python
1419 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1420 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1422 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1423 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1424 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1425 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1426 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1428 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1430 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Non-maintainer upload.
1433 * Update of dh_python
1434 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1435 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1436 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1437 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1438 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1439 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1440 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1441 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1442 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1443 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1445 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1446 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1447 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1448 the not too-distant future).
1449 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1450 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1451 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1452 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1453 thus made the build fail.
1455 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1457 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Non-maintainer upload.
1460 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1462 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1464 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1467 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1468 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1469 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1470 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1471 package. Closes: #301424
1472 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1473 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1474 fonts). Closes: #372686
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1478 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1484 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1485 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1486 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1487 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1488 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1489 above, but already depends on that.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1493 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1496 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1497 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1498 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1499 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1500 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1504 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1510 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1516 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1517 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1521 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1524 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1528 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1532 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1533 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1534 new version (0.24.1).
1535 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1536 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1539 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1540 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1541 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1542 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1543 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1544 new directory on their own.
1545 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1546 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1550 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1553 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1554 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1555 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1556 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1560 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1563 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1564 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1565 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1566 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1567 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1571 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1577 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1581 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1582 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1586 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1587 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1591 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1593 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1594 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1596 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1597 ignored. Closes: #337664
1599 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1604 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1610 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1615 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1616 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1617 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1618 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1619 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1620 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1621 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1625 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1628 version. Closes: #350607
1629 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1630 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1631 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1632 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1636 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1639 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1640 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1641 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1645 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1652 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1658 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1661 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1665 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1668 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1669 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1670 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1671 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1672 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1673 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1677 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1680 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1681 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1686 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1689 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1693 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1696 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1703 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1704 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1705 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1706 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1707 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1708 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1712 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1716 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1717 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1718 link. Closes: #346405
1719 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1721 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1722 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1723 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1724 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1725 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1726 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1727 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1731 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1738 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1744 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1747 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1754 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1759 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1763 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1764 installed. Closes: #342033
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1768 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1771 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1772 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1773 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1778 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1784 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1790 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1794 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1795 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1796 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1800 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1803 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1808 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1815 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1821 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1824 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1825 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1826 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1827 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1828 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1829 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1830 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1832 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1836 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1839 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1840 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1844 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1847 in standard man dirs.
1848 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1852 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1861 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1880 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1883 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1884 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1891 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1892 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1893 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1895 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1897 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1912 mode. Closes: #324161
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1919 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1920 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1921 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1922 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1930 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1931 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1932 is necesary for sanity.
1933 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1934 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1941 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1942 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1949 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1962 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1963 released, so use at your own risk.
1964 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1965 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1967 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1968 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1969 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1970 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1971 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1972 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1973 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1974 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1975 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1976 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1977 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1978 including twice per config file line now..
1979 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1980 and simplfy the rules file.
1981 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1982 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1983 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1985 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1986 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1993 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2000 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2007 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2014 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2015 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2016 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2017 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2018 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2019 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2026 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2027 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2028 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2033 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2036 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2037 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2042 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2045 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2046 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2047 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2055 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2056 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2057 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2061 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2067 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2077 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2078 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2079 unknown. Closes: #282924
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2090 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Spanish man page updates.
2093 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2098 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2107 * dh_desktop: reindent
2108 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2109 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2113 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2121 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2125 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2127 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2131 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2134 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2135 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2139 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2161 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2168 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2169 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2170 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2171 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2172 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2173 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2175 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2176 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2177 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2178 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2179 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2180 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2181 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2182 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2183 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2184 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2185 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2186 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2187 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2188 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2189 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2190 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2204 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2208 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2211 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2215 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2218 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2225 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2235 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2241 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2247 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2250 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2251 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2252 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2256 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2259 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2263 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2266 but occasionally right and necessary.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2270 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2273 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2274 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2275 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2276 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2277 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2281 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2284 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2286 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2287 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2288 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2289 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2290 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2291 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2292 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2293 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2294 postinst scripts for udebs.
2295 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2299 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2302 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2304 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2305 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2309 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2315 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2329 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2332 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2336 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2339 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2343 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2346 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2349 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2350 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2354 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2360 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2363 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2367 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2370 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2371 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2372 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2374 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2376 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2377 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2378 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2382 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2385 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2390 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2393 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2394 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2395 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2400 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2406 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2415 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2416 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2417 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2418 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2419 associated -dbg packages.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2426 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2433 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2440 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2447 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2455 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2462 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2470 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2478 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2479 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2480 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2481 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2482 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2483 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2484 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2485 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2486 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2487 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2491 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2494 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2502 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2503 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2510 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2511 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2519 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2526 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2533 out section number. Closes: #204731
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2559 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2560 removal. Closes: #204286
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2567 renaming. Closes: #203548
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2574 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2575 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2591 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2597 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2600 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2601 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2602 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2609 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2610 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2630 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2638 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2645 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2647 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2648 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2655 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2663 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2673 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2675 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2682 it break hard links (see #188663).
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2689 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2699 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2703 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2704 debconf-mergetemplates
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2708 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2711 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2715 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2718 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2722 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2725 * Update debhelper(1).
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2729 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2732 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2733 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2734 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2735 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2736 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2740 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2743 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2744 the shell. Closes: #178524
2745 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2749 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2752 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2756 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2759 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2763 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2766 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2767 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2768 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2769 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2774 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2777 files from installation.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2784 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2785 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2789 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2792 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2796 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2799 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2803 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2809 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2815 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2819 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2820 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2822 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2826 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2829 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2830 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2831 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2832 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2836 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2839 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2843 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2846 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2847 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2851 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2855 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2866 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2870 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2871 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2872 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2877 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2880 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2881 practice. Closes: #163303
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2885 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2891 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2901 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2903 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2904 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2905 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2906 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2907 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2914 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2932 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2935 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2940 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2946 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2952 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2958 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2965 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2968 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2969 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2970 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2971 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2982 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2992 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2993 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3000 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3001 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3002 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3003 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3004 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3011 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3013 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3018 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3021 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3028 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3029 right thing. Closes: #150644
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Stupid, evil typo.
3036 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3050 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3051 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3065 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3072 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3073 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3078 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3081 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3085 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3094 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3095 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Removing perl warning message.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3114 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3115 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3116 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3117 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3118 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3119 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3120 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3121 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3125 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3141 debconf-mergetemplate.
3142 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3143 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3147 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3150 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3151 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3152 dh_install, which ...
3153 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3154 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3155 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3156 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3157 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3158 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3159 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3160 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3161 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3162 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3163 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3164 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3165 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3166 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3167 other minor changes.
3168 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3169 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3170 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3171 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3172 course there's -X ..)
3173 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3174 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3175 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3177 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3178 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3179 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3180 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3181 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3186 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3192 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3195 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3199 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3205 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3211 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3217 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3223 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3226 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3227 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3228 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3229 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3231 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3232 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3236 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3242 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3245 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3249 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3252 upset. Closes: #131322
3254 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3256 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3259 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3260 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3261 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3262 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3263 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3264 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3265 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3266 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3267 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3268 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3269 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3270 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3271 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3272 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3273 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3275 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3279 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3282 - Better indenting of generated code.
3283 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3287 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3291 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3292 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3293 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3294 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3295 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3296 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3297 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3301 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3304 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3308 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3311 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3312 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3313 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3314 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3315 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3316 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3317 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3318 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3319 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3320 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3321 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3322 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3323 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3324 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3325 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3330 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3336 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3339 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3340 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3344 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3347 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3348 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3352 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3358 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3361 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3362 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3363 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3364 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3365 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3370 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3376 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3379 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3383 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3386 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3391 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3397 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3400 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3404 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3410 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3414 Also some indentation fixes.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3418 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3421 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3422 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3423 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3424 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3425 Closes: #106514, #85520
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3429 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3435 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3441 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3447 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3453 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3459 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3462 change it in debhelper v4..
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3466 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3472 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3475 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3479 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3482 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3486 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3492 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3495 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3496 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3497 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3498 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3499 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3500 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3501 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3502 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3503 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3504 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3505 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3506 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3510 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3513 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3517 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3524 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3527 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3528 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3529 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3530 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3531 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3532 program those options go to. So, for example,
3533 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3534 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3535 something complex. Closes: #89311
3536 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3540 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3543 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3544 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3545 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3549 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3552 through loop. Closes: #98598
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3556 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Missing semi-colon.
3559 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3560 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3564 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3567 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3568 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3569 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3573 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3576 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3577 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3584 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3591 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3592 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3596 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3599 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3600 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3601 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3605 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3608 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3609 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3610 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3614 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3617 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3621 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3627 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3633 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3639 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3645 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3648 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3652 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3655 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3656 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3657 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3658 followed. Closes: #85483
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3662 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3664 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3665 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3666 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3670 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3673 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3674 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3675 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3676 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3677 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3678 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3679 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3680 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3681 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3682 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3683 Closes: #88464, #77743
3684 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3685 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3686 us to deal with that gracefully.
3687 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3689 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3690 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3691 a while, Closes: #51225
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3695 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3701 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3704 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3708 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3712 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3717 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3720 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3721 don't make packlist files.
3722 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3723 debhelper coding standards.
3724 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3725 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3729 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3732 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3736 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3739 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3740 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3741 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3742 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3743 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3744 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3745 but is mildly deprecated.
3746 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3747 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3748 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3749 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3750 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3751 switching to statoverrides..
3752 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3753 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3754 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3755 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3756 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3757 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3759 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3760 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3761 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3762 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3763 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3764 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3765 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3766 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3767 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3769 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3770 variable names, pod man pages).
3771 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3772 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3773 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3774 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3775 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3776 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3777 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3797 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3803 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3804 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3805 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3809 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3811 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3812 they were previously ignored.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3818 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3819 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3823 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3825 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3826 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3827 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3831 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3833 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3837 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3839 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3840 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3844 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3846 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3847 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3848 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3849 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3850 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3851 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3852 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3853 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3854 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3855 it is an obsolete program.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3859 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3861 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3869 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3875 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3879 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3881 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3891 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * typo: Closes, #78567
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3897 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3903 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3912 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3913 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3914 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3915 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3916 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3923 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3931 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3932 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3933 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3934 backwards-compatibility.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3938 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3941 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3942 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3943 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3944 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3945 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3946 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3948 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3949 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3950 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3952 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3954 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3955 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3956 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3957 should now be raised to severity important..
3958 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3959 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3966 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3983 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3989 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3996 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3999 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4000 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4001 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4002 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4006 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4012 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4015 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4016 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4017 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4018 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4019 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4020 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4025 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4028 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4032 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4038 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4041 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4049 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4050 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4051 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4052 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4060 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4063 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4066 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4067 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4070 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4072 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4073 the TODO entry about it.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4087 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4088 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4095 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4096 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4097 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4098 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4108 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4118 (this appears to be logal).
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4125 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4126 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4127 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4128 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4138 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4141 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4142 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4143 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4144 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4157 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4171 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4172 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4173 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4194 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4195 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4196 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4197 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4198 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4199 notice until v2 is complete.
4200 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4201 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4202 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4203 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4204 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4205 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4207 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4208 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4209 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4210 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4214 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4230 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4244 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4245 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4246 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4247 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4252 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4255 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4256 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4257 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4265 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4266 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4270 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4273 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4280 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4294 depend on the build and install targets.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4301 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4318 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4324 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4327 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4328 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4329 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4330 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4331 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4332 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4334 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4335 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4336 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4337 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4338 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4339 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4340 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4344 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4350 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4359 right place. Closes: #55065
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4363 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4373 * Copyright date updates.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4377 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4380 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4385 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4391 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4398 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4404 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4410 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4416 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4419 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4420 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4421 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4422 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4423 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4424 bits until all files have been registered.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4428 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_installmanpages:
4431 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4432 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4433 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4434 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4435 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4436 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4437 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4438 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4439 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4440 otherwise change the result at all.
4442 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4443 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4444 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4445 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4446 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4457 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4460 act on files that don't exist.
4461 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4462 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4463 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4465 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4466 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4467 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4468 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4472 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4478 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4484 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4487 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4491 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4494 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4496 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4497 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4498 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4502 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4505 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4506 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4507 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4508 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4509 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4510 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4511 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4513 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4515 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4519 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4541 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4560 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4561 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4562 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4563 I made some changes, though:
4564 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4565 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4566 that is a clear violation of policy.
4567 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4568 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4569 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4570 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4571 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4572 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4573 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4574 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4575 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4577 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4590 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4597 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4598 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4609 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4619 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4620 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4621 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4622 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4623 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4624 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4625 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4639 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4640 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4644 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4653 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4660 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4661 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4667 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4676 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4683 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4684 for the dependancies to be generated.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4691 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4698 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4699 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4700 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4708 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4709 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4725 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4728 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4738 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4741 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4742 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4743 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4744 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4745 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4746 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4747 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4748 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4749 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4750 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4751 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4752 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4759 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4760 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4762 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4763 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4764 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4765 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4766 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4767 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4769 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4770 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4777 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4791 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4799 for building debhelper.
4800 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4804 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4811 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4814 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4818 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4821 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4822 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4823 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4824 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4825 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4826 it's always available.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4833 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4834 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4835 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4842 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4843 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4847 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4853 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4856 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4869 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4870 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4871 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4878 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4886 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4887 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4889 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4890 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4894 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4900 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4906 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4909 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4913 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4916 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4917 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4919 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4923 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4926 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4927 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4928 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4932 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4935 things if CDPATH is set.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4939 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4945 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4948 seems to make sense for the transition.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4952 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4955 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4960 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4963 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4964 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4968 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4971 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4975 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4978 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4979 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4980 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4981 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4985 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4991 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4994 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4995 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4996 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4997 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4998 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4999 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5000 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5001 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5002 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5003 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5008 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5011 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5012 * README: mention doc/v2
5013 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5014 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5018 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5020 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5021 be using this script RSN.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5025 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5028 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5029 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5030 more than 1 init script.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5034 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5037 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * Changed perl version detection.
5044 * Changed call to find.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5051 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5053 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5058 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * Really include dh_installpam.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5064 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5067 * Wrote man page for same.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5071 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5074 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5075 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5080 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5090 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5091 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5092 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5093 x bit was being set!
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5100 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5101 well. (Closes: 38900)
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5108 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5109 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5113 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5135 help from Julian Gilbey.
5136 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5137 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5138 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5139 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5140 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5141 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5142 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5153 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5160 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5166 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5172 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5175 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5179 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5182 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5186 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5189 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5193 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5199 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5202 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5218 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5221 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5222 may be deleted. (#35845)
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5226 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Various man page enhancements.
5229 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5237 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5238 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5245 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5246 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5247 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5249 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5250 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5261 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * Another very minor typo fix.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * Very minor typo fix.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5276 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5277 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5281 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5287 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5290 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5291 variables properly (#34850).
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5295 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5301 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5304 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5305 (automatically generated by build process).
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5309 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5311 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5315 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5318 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5319 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5321 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5325 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5328 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5332 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * README: minor typo fix.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5338 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5341 leave it at that. :-)
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5351 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5357 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5360 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5361 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5362 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5369 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5376 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5383 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5384 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5385 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5386 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5393 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5394 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5395 Craig Small for spotting this.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5399 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5402 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5403 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5407 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5416 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5422 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5423 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5424 working on the last version of debhelper.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5428 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5431 being made. (#23255)
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5441 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5444 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5448 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5451 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5452 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5453 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5454 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5461 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5462 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5463 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5464 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5466 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5467 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5469 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5474 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5480 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5486 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5489 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5490 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5491 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5492 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5493 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5494 suidregister actually supports it.
5495 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5496 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5500 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5507 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5510 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5511 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5512 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5513 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5514 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5515 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5516 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5520 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5522 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5523 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5527 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5530 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5531 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5532 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5533 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5537 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5540 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5542 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5543 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5544 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5545 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5546 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5547 effect, either. (#30118)
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5551 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5557 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5560 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5561 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5565 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5571 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5574 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5575 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5576 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5577 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5584 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5585 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5589 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5595 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5598 packages, painlessly.
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5602 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5608 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5620 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * The perl conversion is complete.
5624 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5626 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5627 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5628 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5633 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5636 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5637 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5638 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5642 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5645 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5647 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5649 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5650 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5654 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5657 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5658 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5668 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5671 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5672 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5673 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5674 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5675 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5679 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5682 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5683 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5684 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5685 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5689 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5692 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5696 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5699 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5700 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5701 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5702 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5703 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5704 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5705 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5706 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5710 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5719 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5720 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5721 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5726 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5729 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5733 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5736 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5743 sections of shared libraries.
5744 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5745 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5746 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5747 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5748 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5749 things you don't want them to.
5750 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5751 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5755 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5758 shared libraries. (#26414)
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5762 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5764 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5765 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5766 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5767 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5771 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5775 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5777 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5778 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5779 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5780 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5781 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5785 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5788 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5792 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5795 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5796 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5801 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5804 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5808 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5811 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5812 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5813 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5814 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5815 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5817 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5818 remove debian/files properly.
5819 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5820 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5821 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5822 * Removed bogus menu file.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5826 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5829 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5833 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5836 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5837 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5838 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5839 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5840 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5841 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5845 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5848 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5849 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5850 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5851 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5855 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5862 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5865 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5866 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5868 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5869 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5870 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5871 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5872 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5873 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5877 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5880 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5881 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5882 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5883 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5884 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5885 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5886 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5887 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5888 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5889 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5890 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5891 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5892 passed any switches.
5893 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5897 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5900 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5901 at all for a long while.
5902 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5903 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5904 large chunks in the process.
5905 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5906 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5907 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5912 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5915 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5917 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5922 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5925 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5926 that don't always have the same files in them.
5927 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5928 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5929 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5933 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5937 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5938 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5939 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5940 updating 27 man pages.
5941 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5942 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5943 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5944 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5945 programs act on. (#25247)
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5949 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5953 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5954 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5955 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5956 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5957 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5958 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5963 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5970 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5977 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5980 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5984 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5990 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5993 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5994 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5995 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5996 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5997 package by accident.
5998 * Is version 1.0 next?
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6002 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6005 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6006 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6010 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6013 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6014 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6015 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6016 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6017 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6019 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6024 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6027 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6028 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6032 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6035 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6039 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6042 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6043 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6048 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6054 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6057 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6058 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6063 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6069 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6072 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6073 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6074 past week. Thanks, guys!
6076 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6077 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6078 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6079 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6080 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6081 would do in the same situation.
6082 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6083 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6085 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6087 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6088 permissions changed.
6089 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6090 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6091 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6092 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6093 files are treated identically.
6094 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6095 * Minor man page fixes.
6096 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6097 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6098 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6102 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6105 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6106 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6107 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6108 use -X multiple times, too.
6109 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6110 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6114 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6117 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6118 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6122 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6125 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6129 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6132 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6133 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6134 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6135 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6136 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6137 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6138 shape if you're starting a new package.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6142 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6145 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6149 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6152 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6153 because of missing symlinks.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6157 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6163 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6166 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6167 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6168 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6169 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6170 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6172 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6173 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6177 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6179 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6180 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6181 to be changed after the fact :-)
6182 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6186 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6188 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6189 no version string after the -V.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6193 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6195 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6196 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6201 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6204 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6208 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6211 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6212 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6213 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6214 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6215 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6216 I always welcome corrections!
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6220 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6226 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6229 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6230 * Documented this new switch.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6234 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6237 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6238 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6239 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6240 no packages use the old behavior.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6244 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6247 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6248 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6252 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6255 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6259 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6265 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6267 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6268 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6272 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6275 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6276 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6277 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6281 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6287 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6290 into the source package by accident.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6294 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6297 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6298 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6299 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6300 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6301 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6302 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6307 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6311 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6312 inspired to implement some of it.
6313 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6317 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6320 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6324 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6327 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6328 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6332 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6335 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6336 have done.) (#17598)
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6340 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6346 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6352 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6355 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6359 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6362 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6363 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6367 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6370 argument processor in perl.
6371 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6372 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6373 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6374 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6378 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6381 type directories. (#16933)
6382 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6383 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6384 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6385 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6386 are supported. (#16935)
6387 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6392 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6395 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6399 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6403 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6404 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6405 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6406 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6407 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6408 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6412 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6415 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6416 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6418 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6419 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6420 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6421 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6422 a given package, or -i or -a.
6423 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6424 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6425 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6426 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6427 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6428 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6429 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6430 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6431 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6433 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6434 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6435 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6439 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6441 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6442 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6443 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6448 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6451 does not have a section.
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6455 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6458 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6459 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6460 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6464 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6466 * Fixed typo #16215.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6470 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6473 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6474 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6475 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6476 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6477 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6482 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6485 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6486 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6487 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6492 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6498 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6500 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6504 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6507 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6508 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6509 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6510 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6511 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6512 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6516 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6518 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6522 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6525 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6529 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6532 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6533 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6534 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6538 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6541 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6545 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6547 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6551 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6554 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6558 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6561 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6565 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6567 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6571 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6573 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6574 postinst, postrm, etc.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6578 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6584 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6587 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6588 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6589 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6590 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6591 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6595 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6598 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6599 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6603 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6606 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6613 installing package files into.
6614 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6619 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6623 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6633 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6636 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6640 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6643 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6644 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6645 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6646 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6650 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6652 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6653 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6654 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6655 multiple binary packages.
6656 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6657 should rebuild them with this version.
6658 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6662 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6665 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6669 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6672 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6676 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6679 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6680 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6681 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6682 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6683 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6684 debian/README.debian.
6685 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6686 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6687 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6688 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6689 in a few situations.)
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6693 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6699 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6705 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6708 * Fixed several man pages.
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6712 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6715 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6716 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6720 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6723 is ready for general use.
6724 * Added man pages for all commands.
6725 * Multiple binary package support.
6726 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6727 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6728 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6730 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6731 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6732 auto-installed as parameters.
6733 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6735 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6738 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6739 the package build directory it is to act on.
6740 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6741 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6742 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6746 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6748 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6749 ready to replace debstd.
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400