1 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
7 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
9 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
13 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
15 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
16 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
17 package is broken by this change.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
21 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
25 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
26 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
30 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
31 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
32 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
37 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
40 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
41 Added to interface documentation.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
46 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
52 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
55 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
56 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
57 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
59 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
60 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
61 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
62 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
63 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
68 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
71 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
72 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
73 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
74 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
75 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
76 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
80 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Typo. Closes: #653006
83 * Typo. Closes: #653339
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
87 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
90 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
91 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
92 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
93 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
94 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
98 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
101 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
102 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
103 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
104 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
105 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
106 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
107 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
111 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
117 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
120 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
121 may need to disable this.
122 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
123 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
124 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
125 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
129 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
132 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
133 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
137 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
140 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
141 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
143 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
144 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
145 to dh. Closes: #643069
146 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
147 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
151 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
154 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
155 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
156 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
157 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
159 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
160 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
161 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
163 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
164 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
165 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
166 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
167 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
168 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
169 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
170 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
171 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
172 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
173 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
174 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
175 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
176 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
177 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
181 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
188 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
191 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
193 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
199 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
202 Use override targets instead.
203 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
204 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
205 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
206 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
207 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
208 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
209 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
210 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
211 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
212 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
217 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
220 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
224 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
230 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
233 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
234 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
235 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
236 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
237 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
238 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
242 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
245 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
246 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
247 the targets. Closes: #629139
248 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
249 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
250 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
251 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
252 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
253 are already set to other values will not be changed.
255 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
256 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
257 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
258 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
259 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
264 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
270 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
273 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
274 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
278 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
281 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
282 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
283 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
284 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
285 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
286 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
287 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
292 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
296 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
297 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
299 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
300 changes may be added to that mode.
301 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
302 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
303 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
304 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
305 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
306 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
307 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
308 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
309 * Removed old example rules files.
310 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
314 * update french translation.
315 * Fix french misspelling.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
319 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
322 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
326 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
329 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
330 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
331 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
332 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
333 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
334 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
335 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
339 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
342 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
343 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
344 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
345 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
346 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
347 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
349 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
350 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
351 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
352 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
353 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
354 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
355 (Thanks, David Prévot)
356 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
357 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
358 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
359 target fails. Closes: #601037
360 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
362 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
363 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
364 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
365 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
366 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
368 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
369 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
371 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
372 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
373 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
375 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
377 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
380 * update french translation.
381 * Fix french misspelling.
382 * French translation update after massive man page typography
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
386 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
392 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
396 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
398 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
402 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
404 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
405 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
406 introduced by the fix to #527990.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
410 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
413 changes are planned for that mode.
414 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
415 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
416 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
417 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
418 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
419 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
420 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
421 (genesis) still uses them.
422 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
423 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
424 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
425 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
426 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
427 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
428 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
429 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
430 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
431 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
432 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
433 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
434 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
435 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
436 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
437 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
438 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
439 commands. (See #570039)
440 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
442 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
447 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
451 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
452 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
453 in control file or debhelper config files.
454 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
458 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
461 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
462 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
466 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
469 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
473 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
476 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
477 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
481 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Updated French translation.
484 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
485 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
486 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
487 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
489 * Typo. Closes: #571968
490 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
491 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
492 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
493 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
494 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
495 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
496 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
497 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
498 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
500 * dh: Improve documentation.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
504 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
506 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
507 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
508 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
512 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
515 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
519 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
522 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
526 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
529 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
530 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
531 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
532 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
533 options that they do not support.
534 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
535 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
536 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
537 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
538 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
539 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
544 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
548 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
549 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
550 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
551 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
552 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
553 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
554 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
555 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
556 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
560 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
563 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
564 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
565 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
566 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
570 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Typo. Closes: #558654
573 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
574 installed. Closes: #558782
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
578 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
581 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
582 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
583 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
584 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
585 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
589 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
591 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
592 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
593 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
594 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
598 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
601 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
602 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
606 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
608 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
612 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
614 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
615 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
616 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
617 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
618 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
619 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
620 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
621 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
622 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
623 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
624 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
625 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
626 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
627 time soon.) Closes: #554509
628 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
630 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
631 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
632 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
633 document id. Closes: #555677
634 * Typo. Closes: #555659
635 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
636 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
637 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
638 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
640 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
641 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
642 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
647 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
650 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
651 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
652 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
653 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
654 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
655 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
656 translation (#494300 part 2)
659 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
661 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
662 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
663 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
664 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
665 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
669 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
672 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
673 (It was only run once due to logging.)
674 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
675 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
676 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
677 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
678 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
679 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
680 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
681 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
682 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
683 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
687 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
691 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
694 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
695 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
699 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
702 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
703 flag with arch all/any packages.
704 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
705 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
706 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
707 situation. Closes: #540794
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
711 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
715 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
716 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
717 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
718 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
719 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
722 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
723 the default. Closes: #538201
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
728 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
732 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
733 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
734 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
735 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
736 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
738 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
739 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
740 * Above Closes: #491117
741 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
746 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
752 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
753 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
754 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
758 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
761 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
762 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
763 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
764 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
765 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
770 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
773 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
774 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
778 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
780 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
784 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
786 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
787 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
789 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
790 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
791 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
795 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
797 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
798 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
802 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
808 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
810 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
811 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
812 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
817 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
819 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
823 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
826 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
827 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
828 created by using `python' first during build and install.
830 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
835 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
837 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
841 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
843 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
844 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
848 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
850 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
854 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
856 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
860 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
862 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
863 contributed by Modestas Vainius
864 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
865 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
866 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
867 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
868 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
869 that support it. Closes: #480577
870 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
871 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
872 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
874 - Adds support for cmake.
875 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
876 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
878 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
880 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
881 that use them. The options are:
882 --sourcedir, --destdir
883 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
884 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
885 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
886 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
887 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
891 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
897 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
900 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
901 default. Closes: #537140
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
905 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
908 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
909 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
913 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
916 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
920 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
923 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
927 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
930 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
932 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
933 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
934 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
938 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
941 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
942 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
943 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
947 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
950 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
951 warning or deprecation message.
952 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
953 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
954 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
955 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
956 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
957 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
958 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
959 Closes: #534639, #357434
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
963 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
969 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
972 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
973 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
974 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
975 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
977 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
978 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
979 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
983 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
989 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
996 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
999 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1007 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1008 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1010 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1011 file support. Closes: #494914
1012 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1016 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1019 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1020 parameters. Closes: #527256
1021 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1022 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1023 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1027 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1030 (Patch from #459548)
1031 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1032 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1033 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1037 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1040 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1041 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1042 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1046 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1049 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1050 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1052 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1053 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1054 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1058 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1062 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1066 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1069 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1070 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1071 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1072 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1077 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1083 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1086 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1087 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1088 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1089 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1090 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1092 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1093 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1094 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1095 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1096 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1097 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1101 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1104 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1105 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1106 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1107 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1108 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1110 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1114 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1116 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1120 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1122 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1123 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1124 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1125 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1126 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1127 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1128 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1129 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1130 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1131 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1132 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1136 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1138 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1139 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1141 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1142 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1143 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1144 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1146 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1147 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1151 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1154 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1155 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1156 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1157 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1158 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1159 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1161 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1162 that uses them. Affected options are:
1163 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1164 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1165 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1166 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1167 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1168 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1169 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1170 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1171 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1172 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1173 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1174 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1178 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1185 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1191 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1194 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1196 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1197 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1198 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1199 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1200 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1201 than the old method.
1202 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1204 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1205 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1206 rules (see bug #509756).
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1210 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1216 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1217 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1218 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1219 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1223 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1226 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1227 empty files. Closes: #490937
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1231 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1237 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1244 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1247 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1248 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1249 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1250 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1255 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1257 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1258 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1259 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1260 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1264 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1267 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1268 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1269 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1270 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1271 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1275 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1282 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1285 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1286 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1287 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1288 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1289 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1290 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1291 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1292 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1293 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1297 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1300 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1301 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1302 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1303 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1305 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1306 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1307 breaking backwards compatibility.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1311 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1314 message in perl 5.10.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1318 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1324 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1327 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1331 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1334 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1338 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1341 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1342 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1343 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1344 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1345 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1346 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1347 logging by dh_listpackages.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1351 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1354 run and there are no packages of that type.
1355 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1356 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1357 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1358 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1360 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1361 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1365 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1368 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1369 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1373 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1376 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1377 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1379 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1380 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1381 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1382 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1383 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1384 planned but not yet implemented.)
1385 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1386 if the Makefile has such a target.
1387 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1388 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1389 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1390 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1391 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1392 but not yet implemented.)
1393 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1394 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1395 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1396 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1397 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1399 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1401 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1402 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1404 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1405 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1406 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1411 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1414 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1415 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1419 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1421 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1422 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1423 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1427 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1433 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1439 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1442 just those installed by the program.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1446 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1449 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1450 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1454 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1457 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1458 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1459 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1460 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1464 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1467 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1468 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1472 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1475 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1476 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1480 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1483 with policy. Closes: #461392
1484 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1485 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1486 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1487 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1488 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1492 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1495 Closes: #460340, #460351
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1499 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1502 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1503 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1504 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1505 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1509 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1512 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1513 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1514 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1515 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1516 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1517 package build directory won't work.
1518 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1519 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1520 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1521 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1522 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1523 mode. Closes: #459426
1524 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1529 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1532 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1536 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1540 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1541 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1542 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1543 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1544 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1545 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1549 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1552 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1553 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1554 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1555 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1559 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1562 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1563 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1564 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1565 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1566 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1570 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1573 debian/package.triggers files.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1577 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1580 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1584 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1587 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1588 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1589 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1590 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1595 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1598 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1602 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1605 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1606 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1608 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1613 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1617 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1618 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1619 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1623 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1630 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1637 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1640 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1642 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1643 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1644 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1646 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1647 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1648 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1652 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1655 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1656 * Update urls to web page.
1657 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1658 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1659 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1660 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1664 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1667 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1668 - typo in alternatives call
1669 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1671 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1672 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1676 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1679 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1684 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1690 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1696 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1699 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1701 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1702 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1703 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1704 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1705 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1706 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1707 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1708 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1709 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1710 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1711 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1715 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1718 package install. Closes: #415717
1719 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1720 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1721 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1722 script and then remove the python files.
1723 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1724 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1725 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1726 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1727 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1728 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1729 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1730 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1731 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1732 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1733 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1734 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1735 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1739 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Correct typo in french translation
1745 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1746 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1748 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1750 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1751 Closes: #406921, #381940
1752 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1754 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1755 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1756 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1757 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1758 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1759 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1760 specified). Closes: #381851
1761 * Misc minor changes.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1765 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1772 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1773 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1777 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1783 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1784 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1787 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1788 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1790 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1791 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1792 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1793 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1797 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1800 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1803 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1807 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1813 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1819 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1820 a difficult situation.
1821 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1822 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1823 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1824 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1825 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1826 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1827 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1828 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1829 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1830 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1834 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Non-maintainer upload.
1837 * Update of dh_python
1838 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1839 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1841 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1842 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1843 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1844 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1845 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1847 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1849 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Non-maintainer upload.
1852 * Update of dh_python
1853 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1854 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1855 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1856 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1857 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1858 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1859 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1860 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1861 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1862 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1864 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1865 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1866 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1867 the not too-distant future).
1868 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1869 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1870 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1871 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1872 thus made the build fail.
1874 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1876 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Non-maintainer upload.
1879 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1881 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1883 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1886 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1887 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1888 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1889 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1890 package. Closes: #301424
1891 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1892 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1893 fonts). Closes: #372686
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1897 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1903 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1904 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1905 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1906 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1907 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1908 above, but already depends on that.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1912 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1915 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1916 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1917 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1918 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1919 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1923 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1929 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1935 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1936 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1940 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1943 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1947 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1951 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1952 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1953 new version (0.24.1).
1954 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1955 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1958 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1959 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1960 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1961 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1962 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1963 new directory on their own.
1964 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1965 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1969 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1972 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1973 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1974 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1975 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1979 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1982 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1983 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1984 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1985 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1986 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1990 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1996 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2000 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2001 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2005 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2006 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2010 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2012 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2013 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2015 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2016 ignored. Closes: #337664
2018 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2023 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2029 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2034 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2035 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2036 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2037 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2038 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2039 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2040 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2044 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2047 version. Closes: #350607
2048 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2049 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2050 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2051 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2055 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2058 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2059 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2060 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2064 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2071 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2077 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2080 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2084 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2087 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2088 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2089 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2090 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2091 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2092 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2096 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2099 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2100 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2105 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2108 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2112 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2115 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2119 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2122 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2123 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2124 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2125 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2126 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2127 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2131 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2135 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2136 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2137 link. Closes: #346405
2138 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2140 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2141 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2142 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2143 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2144 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2145 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2146 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2150 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2157 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2163 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2166 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2170 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2173 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2178 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2182 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2183 installed. Closes: #342033
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2187 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2190 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2191 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2192 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2197 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2203 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2209 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2213 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2214 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2215 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2219 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2222 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2227 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2234 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2240 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2243 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2244 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2245 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2246 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2247 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2248 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2249 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2251 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2255 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2258 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2259 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2266 in standard man dirs.
2267 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2280 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2299 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2302 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2303 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2310 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2311 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2312 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2314 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2316 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2331 mode. Closes: #324161
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2338 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2339 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2340 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2341 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2349 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2350 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2351 is necesary for sanity.
2352 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2353 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2360 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2361 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2368 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2381 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2382 released, so use at your own risk.
2383 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2384 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2386 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2387 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2388 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2389 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2390 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2391 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2392 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2393 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2394 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2395 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2396 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2397 including twice per config file line now..
2398 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2399 and simplfy the rules file.
2400 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2401 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2402 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2404 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2405 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2412 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2419 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2426 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2433 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2434 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2435 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2436 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2437 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2438 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2445 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2446 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2447 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2452 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2455 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2456 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2461 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2464 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2465 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2466 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2474 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2475 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2476 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2480 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2486 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2493 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2496 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2497 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2498 unknown. Closes: #282924
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2509 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Spanish man page updates.
2512 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2526 * dh_desktop: reindent
2527 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2528 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2540 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2546 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2550 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2553 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2554 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2558 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2580 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2587 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2588 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2589 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2590 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2591 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2592 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2594 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2595 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2596 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2597 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2598 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2599 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2600 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2601 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2602 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2603 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2604 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2605 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2606 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2607 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2608 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2609 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2623 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2627 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2630 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2637 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2644 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2654 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2660 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2666 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2669 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2670 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2671 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2675 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2678 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2682 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2685 but occasionally right and necessary.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2689 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2692 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2693 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2694 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2695 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2696 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2700 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2703 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2705 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2706 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2707 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2708 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2709 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2710 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2711 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2712 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2713 postinst scripts for udebs.
2714 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2718 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2721 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2723 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2724 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2728 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2734 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2741 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2751 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2755 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2758 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2762 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2765 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2768 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2769 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2779 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2782 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2786 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2789 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2790 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2791 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2793 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2795 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2796 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2797 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2801 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2804 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2809 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2812 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2813 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2814 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2819 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2831 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2834 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2835 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2836 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2837 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2838 associated -dbg packages.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2842 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2845 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2852 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2859 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2866 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2871 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2874 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2878 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2881 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2886 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2889 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2893 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2897 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2898 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2899 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2900 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2901 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2902 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2903 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2904 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2905 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2906 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2913 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2921 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2922 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2929 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2930 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2938 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2945 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2952 out section number. Closes: #204731
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2978 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2979 removal. Closes: #204286
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2986 renaming. Closes: #203548
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2993 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2994 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2998 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3004 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3010 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3016 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3019 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3020 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3021 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3028 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3029 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3049 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3057 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3064 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3066 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3067 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3071 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3074 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3079 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3082 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3094 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3101 it break hard links (see #188663).
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3108 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3118 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3122 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3123 debconf-mergetemplates
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3127 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3130 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3134 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3137 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3141 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3144 * Update debhelper(1).
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3148 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3151 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3152 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3153 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3154 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3155 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3159 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3162 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3163 the shell. Closes: #178524
3164 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3168 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3171 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3175 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3178 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3182 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3185 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3186 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3187 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3188 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3193 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3196 files from installation.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3200 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3203 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3204 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3208 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3211 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3215 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3218 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3222 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3228 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3234 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3238 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3239 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3241 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3245 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3248 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3249 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3250 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3251 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3255 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3258 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3262 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3265 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3266 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3270 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3274 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3279 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3285 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3289 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3290 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3291 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3296 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3299 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3300 practice. Closes: #163303
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3304 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3310 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3317 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3320 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3322 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3323 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3324 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3325 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3326 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3330 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3333 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3338 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3344 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3351 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3354 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3365 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3371 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3377 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3384 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3387 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3388 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3389 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3390 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3395 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3401 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3408 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3411 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3412 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3416 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3419 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3420 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3421 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3422 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3423 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3427 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3430 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3432 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3437 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3440 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3444 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3447 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3448 right thing. Closes: #150644
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3452 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Stupid, evil typo.
3455 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3459 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3466 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3469 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3470 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3475 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3481 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3484 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3488 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3491 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3492 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3497 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3500 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3504 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3510 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3513 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3514 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3518 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3524 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Removing perl warning message.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3530 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3533 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3534 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3535 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3536 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3537 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3538 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3539 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3540 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3544 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3550 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3557 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3560 debconf-mergetemplate.
3561 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3562 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3566 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3569 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3570 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3571 dh_install, which ...
3572 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3573 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3574 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3575 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3576 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3577 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3578 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3579 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3580 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3581 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3582 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3583 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3584 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3585 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3586 other minor changes.
3587 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3588 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3589 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3590 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3591 course there's -X ..)
3592 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3593 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3594 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3596 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3597 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3598 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3599 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3600 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3605 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3611 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3614 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3618 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3624 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3630 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3636 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3642 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3645 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3646 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3647 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3648 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3650 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3651 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3655 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3661 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3664 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3668 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3671 upset. Closes: #131322
3673 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3675 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3678 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3679 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3680 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3681 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3682 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3683 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3684 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3685 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3686 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3687 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3688 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3689 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3690 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3691 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3692 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3694 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3698 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3701 - Better indenting of generated code.
3702 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3706 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3710 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3711 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3712 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3713 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3714 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3715 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3716 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3720 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3723 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3727 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3730 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3731 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3732 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3733 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3734 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3735 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3736 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3737 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3738 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3739 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3740 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3741 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3742 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3743 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3744 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3749 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3755 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3758 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3759 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3763 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3766 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3767 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3771 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3777 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3780 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3781 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3782 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3783 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3784 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3789 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3795 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3798 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3802 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3805 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3810 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3816 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3819 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3823 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3829 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3833 Also some indentation fixes.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3837 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3840 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3841 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3842 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3843 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3844 Closes: #106514, #85520
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3848 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3854 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3860 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3866 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3872 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3878 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3881 change it in debhelper v4..
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3885 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3891 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3894 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3898 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3901 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3905 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3911 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3914 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3915 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3916 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3917 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3918 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3919 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3920 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3921 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3922 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3923 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3924 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3925 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3929 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3932 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3936 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3943 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3946 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3947 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3948 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3949 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3950 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3951 program those options go to. So, for example,
3952 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3953 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3954 something complex. Closes: #89311
3955 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3959 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3962 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3963 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3964 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3968 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3971 through loop. Closes: #98598
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3975 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Missing semi-colon.
3978 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3979 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3983 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3986 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3987 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3988 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3992 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3995 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3996 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4000 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4003 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4007 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4010 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4011 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4015 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4018 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4019 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4020 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4024 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4027 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4028 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4029 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4033 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4036 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4040 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4046 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4052 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4058 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4064 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4067 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4071 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4074 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4075 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4076 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4077 followed. Closes: #85483
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4081 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4083 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4084 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4085 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4089 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4092 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4093 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4094 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4095 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4096 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4097 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4098 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4099 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4100 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4101 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4102 Closes: #88464, #77743
4103 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4104 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4105 us to deal with that gracefully.
4106 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4108 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4109 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4110 a while, Closes: #51225
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4114 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4120 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4123 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4127 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4131 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4136 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4139 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4140 don't make packlist files.
4141 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4142 debhelper coding standards.
4143 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4144 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4148 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4151 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4155 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4158 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4159 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4160 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4161 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4162 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4163 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4164 but is mildly deprecated.
4165 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4166 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4167 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4168 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4169 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4170 switching to statoverrides..
4171 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4172 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4173 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4174 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4175 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4176 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4178 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4179 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4180 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4181 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4182 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4183 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4184 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4185 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4186 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4188 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4189 variable names, pod man pages).
4190 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4191 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4192 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4193 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4194 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4195 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4196 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4206 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4213 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4216 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4222 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4223 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4224 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4228 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4230 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4231 they were previously ignored.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4235 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4237 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4238 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4244 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4245 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4246 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4250 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4252 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4256 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4258 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4259 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4263 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4265 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4266 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4267 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4268 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4269 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4270 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4271 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4272 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4273 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4274 it is an obsolete program.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4280 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4284 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4288 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4294 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4296 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4298 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4300 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * typo: Closes, #78567
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4331 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4332 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4333 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4334 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4335 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4339 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4342 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4347 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4350 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4351 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4352 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4353 backwards-compatibility.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4357 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4360 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4361 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4362 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4363 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4364 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4365 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4367 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4368 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4369 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4371 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4373 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4374 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4375 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4376 should now be raised to severity important..
4377 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4378 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4382 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4385 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4390 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4396 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4402 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4418 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4419 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4420 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4421 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4425 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4431 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4434 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4435 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4436 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4437 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4438 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4439 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4444 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4447 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4457 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4460 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4468 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4469 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4470 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4471 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4479 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4482 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4485 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4486 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4489 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4491 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4492 the TODO entry about it.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4506 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4507 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4514 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4515 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4516 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4517 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4537 (this appears to be logal).
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4544 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4545 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4546 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4547 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4560 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4561 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4562 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4563 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4573 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4576 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4590 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4591 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4592 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4613 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4614 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4615 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4616 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4617 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4618 notice until v2 is complete.
4619 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4620 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4621 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4622 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4623 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4624 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4626 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4627 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4628 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4629 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4649 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4663 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4664 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4665 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4666 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4674 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4675 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4676 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4684 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4685 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4689 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4692 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4699 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4713 depend on the build and install targets.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4720 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4737 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4743 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4746 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4747 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4748 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4749 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4750 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4751 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4753 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4754 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4755 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4756 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4757 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4758 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4759 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4763 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4769 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4775 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4778 right place. Closes: #55065
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4782 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4789 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4792 * Copyright date updates.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4796 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4799 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4804 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4810 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4823 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4829 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4835 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4838 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4839 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4840 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4841 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4842 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4843 bits until all files have been registered.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4847 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installmanpages:
4850 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4851 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4852 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4853 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4854 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4855 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4856 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4857 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4858 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4859 otherwise change the result at all.
4861 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4862 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4863 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4864 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4865 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4870 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4876 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4879 act on files that don't exist.
4880 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4881 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4882 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4884 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4885 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4886 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4887 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4891 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4897 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4903 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4906 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4910 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4913 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4915 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4916 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4917 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4921 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4924 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4925 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4926 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4927 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4928 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4929 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4930 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4932 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4934 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4938 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4945 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4957 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4960 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4979 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4980 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4981 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4982 I made some changes, though:
4983 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4984 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4985 that is a clear violation of policy.
4986 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4987 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4988 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4989 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4990 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4991 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4992 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4993 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4994 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4996 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5000 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5006 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5009 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5013 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5016 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5017 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5035 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5038 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5039 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5040 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5041 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5042 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5043 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5044 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5058 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5059 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5072 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5076 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5079 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5080 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5084 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5086 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5091 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5095 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5099 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5102 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5103 for the dependancies to be generated.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5107 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5110 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5117 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5118 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5119 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5124 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5127 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5128 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5138 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5144 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5147 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5151 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5157 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5160 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5161 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5162 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5163 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5164 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5165 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5166 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5167 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5168 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5169 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5170 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5171 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5175 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5178 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5179 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5181 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5182 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5183 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5184 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5185 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5186 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5188 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5189 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5193 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5196 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5200 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5207 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5210 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5215 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5218 for building debhelper.
5219 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5223 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5230 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5233 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5237 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5240 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5241 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5242 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5243 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5244 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5245 it's always available.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5249 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5252 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5253 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5254 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5258 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5261 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5262 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5266 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5272 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5275 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5279 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5285 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5288 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5289 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5290 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5294 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5297 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5302 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5305 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5306 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5308 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5309 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5313 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5319 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5325 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5328 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5332 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5335 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5336 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5338 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5342 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5345 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5346 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5347 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5351 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5354 things if CDPATH is set.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5358 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5364 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5367 seems to make sense for the transition.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5371 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5374 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5379 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5382 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5383 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5387 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5390 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5394 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5397 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5398 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5399 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5400 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5404 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5410 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5413 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5414 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5415 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5416 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5417 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5418 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5419 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5420 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5421 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5422 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5430 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5431 * README: mention doc/v2
5432 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5433 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5437 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5439 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5440 be using this script RSN.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5444 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5447 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5448 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5449 more than 1 init script.
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5453 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5456 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5460 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * Changed perl version detection.
5463 * Changed call to find.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5467 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5470 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5472 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5477 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * Really include dh_installpam.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5483 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5486 * Wrote man page for same.
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5490 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5493 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5494 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5499 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5506 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5509 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5510 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5511 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5512 x bit was being set!
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5519 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5520 well. (Closes: 38900)
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5524 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5527 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5528 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5538 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5545 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5551 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5554 help from Julian Gilbey.
5555 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5556 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5557 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5558 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5559 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5560 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5561 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5572 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5585 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5591 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5594 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5598 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5601 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5608 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5612 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5621 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5637 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5640 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5641 may be deleted. (#35845)
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5645 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * Various man page enhancements.
5648 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5653 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5656 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5657 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5661 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5664 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5665 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5666 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5668 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5669 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5674 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5680 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * Another very minor typo fix.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5686 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * Very minor typo fix.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5692 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5695 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5696 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5700 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5709 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5710 variables properly (#34850).
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5714 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5720 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5723 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5724 (automatically generated by build process).
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5730 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5737 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5738 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5740 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5744 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5747 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5751 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * README: minor typo fix.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5757 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5760 leave it at that. :-)
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5776 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5779 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5780 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5781 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5785 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5788 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5792 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5795 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5802 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5803 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5804 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5805 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5809 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5812 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5813 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5814 Craig Small for spotting this.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5821 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5822 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5826 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5832 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5835 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5839 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5841 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5842 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5843 working on the last version of debhelper.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5847 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5850 being made. (#23255)
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5854 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5860 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5863 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5867 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5870 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5871 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5872 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5873 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5877 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5880 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5881 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5882 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5883 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5885 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5886 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5888 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5893 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5899 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5905 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5908 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5909 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5910 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5911 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5912 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5913 suidregister actually supports it.
5914 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5915 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5919 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5926 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5929 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5930 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5931 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5932 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5933 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5934 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5935 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5939 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5941 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5942 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5946 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5949 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5950 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5951 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5952 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5956 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5959 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5961 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5962 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5963 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5964 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5965 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5966 effect, either. (#30118)
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5970 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5976 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5979 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5980 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5984 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5990 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5993 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5994 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5995 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5996 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6000 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6002 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6003 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6004 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6008 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6014 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6017 packages, painlessly.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6021 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6027 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6033 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6039 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * The perl conversion is complete.
6043 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6045 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6046 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6047 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6052 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6055 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6056 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6057 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6061 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6064 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6066 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6068 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6069 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6073 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6076 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6077 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6081 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6087 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6090 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6091 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6092 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6093 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6094 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6098 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6101 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6102 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6103 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6104 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6108 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6111 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6115 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6118 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6119 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6120 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6121 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6122 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6123 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6124 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6125 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6129 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6135 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6137 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6138 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6139 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6140 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6145 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6148 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6152 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6155 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6159 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6162 sections of shared libraries.
6163 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6164 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6165 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6166 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6167 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6168 things you don't want them to.
6169 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6170 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6174 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6177 shared libraries. (#26414)
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6181 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6183 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6184 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6185 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6186 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6190 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6194 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6196 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6197 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6198 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6199 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6200 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6204 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6207 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6211 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6214 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6215 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6220 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6223 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6227 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6230 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6231 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6232 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6233 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6234 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6236 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6237 remove debian/files properly.
6238 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6239 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6240 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6241 * Removed bogus menu file.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6245 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6248 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6252 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6255 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6256 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6257 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6258 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6259 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6260 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6264 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6267 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6268 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6269 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6270 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6274 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6281 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6284 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6285 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6287 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6288 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6289 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6290 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6291 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6292 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6296 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6299 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6300 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6301 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6302 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6303 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6304 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6305 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6306 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6307 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6308 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6309 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6310 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6311 passed any switches.
6312 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6316 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6319 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6320 at all for a long while.
6321 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6322 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6323 large chunks in the process.
6324 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6325 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6326 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6331 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6334 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6336 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6341 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6343 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6344 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6345 that don't always have the same files in them.
6346 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6347 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6348 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6352 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6356 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6357 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6358 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6359 updating 27 man pages.
6360 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6361 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6362 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6363 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6364 programs act on. (#25247)
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6368 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6372 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6373 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6374 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6375 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6376 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6377 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6382 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6389 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6396 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6399 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6403 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6409 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6412 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6413 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6414 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6415 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6416 package by accident.
6417 * Is version 1.0 next?
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6421 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6424 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6425 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6429 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6432 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6433 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6434 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6435 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6436 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6438 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6443 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6446 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6447 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6451 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6454 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6458 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6461 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6462 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6467 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6473 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6476 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6477 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6482 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6488 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6491 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6492 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6493 past week. Thanks, guys!
6495 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6496 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6497 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6498 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6499 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6500 would do in the same situation.
6501 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6502 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6504 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6506 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6507 permissions changed.
6508 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6509 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6510 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6511 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6512 files are treated identically.
6513 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6514 * Minor man page fixes.
6515 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6516 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6517 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6521 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6524 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6525 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6526 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6527 use -X multiple times, too.
6528 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6529 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6533 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6535 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6536 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6537 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6541 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6544 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6548 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6551 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6552 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6553 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6554 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6555 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6556 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6557 shape if you're starting a new package.
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6561 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6564 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6568 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6571 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6572 because of missing symlinks.
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6576 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6578 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6582 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6584 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6585 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6586 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6587 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6588 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6589 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6591 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6592 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6596 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6598 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6599 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6600 to be changed after the fact :-)
6601 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6605 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6607 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6608 no version string after the -V.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6612 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6614 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6615 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6620 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6623 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6627 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6630 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6631 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6632 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6633 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6634 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6635 I always welcome corrections!
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6639 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6645 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6647 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6648 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6649 * Documented this new switch.
6651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6653 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6655 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6656 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6657 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6658 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6659 no packages use the old behavior.
6661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6663 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6665 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6666 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6667 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6671 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6673 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6674 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6678 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6684 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6687 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6691 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6694 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6695 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6696 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6700 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6706 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6708 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6709 into the source package by accident.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6713 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6716 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6717 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6718 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6719 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6720 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6721 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6726 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6730 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6731 inspired to implement some of it.
6732 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6736 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6738 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6739 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6743 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6746 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6747 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6751 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6753 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6754 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6755 have done.) (#17598)
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6759 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6765 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6767 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6771 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6774 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6778 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6780 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6781 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6782 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6786 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6789 argument processor in perl.
6790 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6791 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6792 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6793 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6797 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6799 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6800 type directories. (#16933)
6801 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6802 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6803 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6804 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6805 are supported. (#16935)
6806 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6811 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6813 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6814 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6818 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6820 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6822 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6823 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6824 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6825 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6826 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6827 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6834 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6835 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6837 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6838 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6839 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6840 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6841 a given package, or -i or -a.
6842 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6843 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6844 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6845 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6846 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6847 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6848 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6849 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6850 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6852 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6853 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6854 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6858 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6860 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6861 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6862 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6867 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6869 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6870 does not have a section.
6872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6874 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6876 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6877 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6878 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6879 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6883 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6885 * Fixed typo #16215.
6887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6889 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6891 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6892 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6893 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6894 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6895 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6896 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6901 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6903 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6904 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6905 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6906 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6917 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6919 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6923 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6925 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6926 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6927 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6928 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6929 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6930 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6931 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6935 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6937 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6941 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6943 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6944 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6948 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6950 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6951 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6952 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6953 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6957 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6959 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6960 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6964 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6966 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6970 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6972 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6973 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6977 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6979 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6980 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6984 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6986 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6990 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6992 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6993 postinst, postrm, etc.
6995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6997 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6999 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7003 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7005 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7006 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7007 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7008 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7009 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7010 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7014 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7016 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7017 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7018 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7022 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7024 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7025 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7029 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7031 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7032 installing package files into.
7033 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7038 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7040 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7042 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7046 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7048 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7052 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7054 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7055 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7059 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7061 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7062 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7063 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7064 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7065 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7069 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7071 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7072 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7073 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7074 multiple binary packages.
7075 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7076 should rebuild them with this version.
7077 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7081 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7083 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7084 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7088 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7090 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7091 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7095 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7097 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7098 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7099 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7100 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7101 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7102 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7103 debian/README.debian.
7104 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7105 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7106 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7107 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7108 in a few situations.)
7110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7112 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7114 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7118 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7120 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7124 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7126 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7127 * Fixed several man pages.
7129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7131 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7133 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7134 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7135 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7139 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7141 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7142 is ready for general use.
7143 * Added man pages for all commands.
7144 * Multiple binary package support.
7145 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7146 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7147 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7149 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7150 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7151 auto-installed as parameters.
7152 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7154 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7157 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7158 the package build directory it is to act on.
7159 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7160 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7161 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7165 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7167 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7168 ready to replace debstd.
7170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400