1 debhelper (7.4.21) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
8 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
9 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
10 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
11 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
12 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
13 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
14 not itself normally look will be passed to it, a behavior change which
15 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
16 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated command.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
20 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
24 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
25 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
26 in control file or debhelper config files.
27 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
31 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
34 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
35 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
39 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
42 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
46 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
49 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
50 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
54 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Updated French translation.
57 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
58 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
59 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
60 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
62 * Typo. Closes: #571968
63 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
64 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
65 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
66 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
67 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
68 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
69 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
70 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
71 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
73 * dh: Improve documentation.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
77 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
79 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
80 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
81 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
85 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
88 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
92 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
95 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
99 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
102 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
103 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
104 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
105 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
106 options that they do not support.
107 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
108 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
109 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
110 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
111 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
112 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
117 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
121 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
122 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
123 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
124 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
125 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
126 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
127 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
128 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
129 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
133 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
136 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
137 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
138 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
139 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
143 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Typo. Closes: #558654
146 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
147 installed. Closes: #558782
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
151 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
154 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
155 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
156 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
157 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
158 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
162 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
164 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
165 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
166 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
167 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
171 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
174 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
175 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
179 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
181 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
185 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
187 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
188 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
189 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
190 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
191 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
192 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
193 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
194 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
195 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
196 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
197 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
198 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
199 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
200 time soon.) Closes: #554509
201 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
203 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
204 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
205 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
206 document id. Closes: #555677
207 * Typo. Closes: #555659
208 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
209 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
210 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
211 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
213 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
214 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
215 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
220 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
223 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
224 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
225 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
226 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
227 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
228 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
229 translation (#494300 part 2)
232 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
234 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
235 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
236 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
237 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
238 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
242 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
245 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
246 (It was only run once due to logging.)
247 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
248 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
249 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
250 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
251 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
252 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
253 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
254 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
255 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
256 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
260 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
264 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
267 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
268 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
272 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
275 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
276 flag with arch all/any packages.
277 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
278 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
279 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
280 situation. Closes: #540794
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
284 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
288 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
289 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
290 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
291 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
292 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
295 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
296 the default. Closes: #538201
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
301 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
305 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
306 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
307 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
308 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
309 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
311 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
312 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
313 * Above Closes: #491117
314 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
319 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
325 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
326 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
327 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
331 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
334 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
335 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
336 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
337 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
338 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
343 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
346 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
347 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
351 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
353 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
357 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
359 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
360 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
362 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
363 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
364 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
368 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
370 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
371 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
375 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
381 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
383 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
384 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
385 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
390 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
392 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
396 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
399 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
400 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
401 created by using `python' first during build and install.
403 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
408 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
410 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
414 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
416 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
417 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
421 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
423 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
427 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
429 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
433 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
435 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
436 contributed by Modestas Vainius
437 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
438 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
439 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
440 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
441 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
442 that support it. Closes: #480577
443 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
444 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
445 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
447 - Adds support for cmake.
448 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
449 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
451 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
453 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
454 that use them. The options are:
455 --sourcedir, --destdir
456 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
457 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
458 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
459 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
460 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
464 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
470 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
473 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
474 default. Closes: #537140
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
478 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
481 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
482 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
486 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
489 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
493 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
496 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
500 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
503 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
505 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
506 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
507 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
511 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
514 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
515 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
516 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
520 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
523 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
524 warning or deprecation message.
525 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
526 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
527 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
528 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
529 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
530 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
531 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
532 Closes: #534639, #357434
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
536 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
542 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
545 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
546 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
547 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
548 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
550 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
551 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
552 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
556 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
562 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
569 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
572 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
576 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
580 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
581 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
583 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
584 file support. Closes: #494914
585 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
589 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
592 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
593 parameters. Closes: #527256
594 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
595 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
596 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
600 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
604 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
605 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
606 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
610 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
613 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
614 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
615 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
619 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
622 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
623 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
625 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
626 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
627 by triggers). Closes: #521181
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
631 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
635 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
639 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
642 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
643 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
644 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
645 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
650 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
656 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
659 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
660 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
661 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
662 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
663 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
665 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
666 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
667 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
668 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
669 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
670 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
674 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
677 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
678 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
679 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
680 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
681 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
683 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
687 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
689 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
693 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
695 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
696 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
697 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
698 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
699 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
700 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
701 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
702 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
703 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
704 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
705 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
709 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
711 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
712 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
714 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
715 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
716 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
717 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
719 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
720 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
724 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
726 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
727 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
728 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
729 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
730 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
731 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
732 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
734 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
735 that uses them. Affected options are:
736 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
737 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
738 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
739 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
740 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
741 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
742 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
743 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
744 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
745 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
746 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
747 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
751 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
758 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
764 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
766 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
767 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
769 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
770 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
771 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
772 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
773 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
775 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
777 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
778 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
779 rules (see bug #509756).
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
783 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
789 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
790 * Typo. Closes: #493062
791 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
792 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
796 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
799 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
800 empty files. Closes: #490937
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
804 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
810 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
817 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
820 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
821 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
822 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
823 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
830 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
831 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
832 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
833 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
837 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
840 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
841 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
842 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
843 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
844 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
848 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
855 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
857 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
858 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
859 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
860 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
861 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
862 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
863 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
864 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
865 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
866 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
870 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
873 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
874 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
875 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
876 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
878 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
879 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
880 breaking backwards compatibility.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
884 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
887 message in perl 5.10.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
891 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
897 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Convert copyright file to new format.
900 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
904 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
907 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
911 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
914 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
915 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
916 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
917 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
918 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
919 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
920 logging by dh_listpackages.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
924 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
927 run and there are no packages of that type.
928 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
929 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
930 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
931 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
933 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
934 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
938 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
940 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
941 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
942 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
946 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
949 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
950 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
952 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
953 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
954 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
955 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
956 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
957 planned but not yet implemented.)
958 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
959 if the Makefile has such a target.
960 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
961 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
962 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
963 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
964 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
965 but not yet implemented.)
966 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
967 recommended default, especially when using dh.
968 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
969 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
970 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
972 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
974 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
975 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
977 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
978 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
979 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
984 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
987 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
988 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
992 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
994 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
995 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
996 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1000 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1006 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1012 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1015 just those installed by the program.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1019 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1022 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1023 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1027 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1030 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1031 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1032 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1033 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1037 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1040 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1041 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1045 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1048 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1049 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1053 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1056 with policy. Closes: #461392
1057 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1058 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1059 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1060 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1061 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1065 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1068 Closes: #460340, #460351
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1072 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1075 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1076 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1077 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1078 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1082 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1085 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1086 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1087 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1088 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1089 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1090 package build directory won't work.
1091 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1092 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1093 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1094 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1095 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1096 mode. Closes: #459426
1097 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1105 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1109 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1113 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1114 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1115 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1116 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1117 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1118 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1122 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1125 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1126 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1127 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1128 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1132 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1135 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1136 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1137 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1138 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1139 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1143 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1146 debian/package.triggers files.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1150 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1153 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1157 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1160 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1161 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1162 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1163 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1168 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1171 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1175 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1178 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1179 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1181 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1186 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1190 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1191 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1192 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1196 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1203 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1210 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1213 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1215 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1216 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1217 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1219 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1220 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1221 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1225 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1228 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1229 * Update urls to web page.
1230 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1231 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1232 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1233 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1237 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1240 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1241 - typo in alternatives call
1242 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1244 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1245 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1249 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1252 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1257 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1263 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1269 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1272 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1274 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1275 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1276 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1277 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1278 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1279 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1280 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1281 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1282 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1283 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1284 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1288 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1291 package install. Closes: #415717
1292 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1293 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1294 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1295 script and then remove the python files.
1296 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1297 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1298 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1299 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1300 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1301 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1302 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1303 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1304 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1305 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1306 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1307 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1308 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1312 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Correct typo in french translation
1318 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1319 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1321 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1323 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1324 Closes: #406921, #381940
1325 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1327 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1328 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1329 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1330 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1331 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1332 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1333 specified). Closes: #381851
1334 * Misc minor changes.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1338 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1345 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1346 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1350 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1356 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1357 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1360 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1361 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1363 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1364 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1365 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1366 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1370 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1373 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1376 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1380 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1386 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1392 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1393 a difficult situation.
1394 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1395 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1396 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1397 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1398 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1399 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1400 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1401 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1402 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1403 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1407 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Non-maintainer upload.
1410 * Update of dh_python
1411 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1412 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1414 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1415 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1416 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1417 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1418 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1420 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1422 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Non-maintainer upload.
1425 * Update of dh_python
1426 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1427 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1428 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1429 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1430 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1431 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1432 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1433 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1434 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1435 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1437 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1438 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1439 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1440 the not too-distant future).
1441 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1442 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1443 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1444 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1445 thus made the build fail.
1447 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1449 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Non-maintainer upload.
1452 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1454 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1456 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1459 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1460 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1461 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1462 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1463 package. Closes: #301424
1464 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1465 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1466 fonts). Closes: #372686
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1470 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1476 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1477 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1478 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1479 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1480 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1481 above, but already depends on that.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1485 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1488 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1489 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1490 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1491 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1492 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1496 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1502 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1508 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1509 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1513 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1516 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1520 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1524 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1525 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1526 new version (0.24.1).
1527 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1528 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1531 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1532 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1533 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1534 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1535 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1536 new directory on their own.
1537 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1538 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1542 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1545 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1546 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1547 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1548 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1552 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1555 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1556 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1557 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1558 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1559 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1563 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1569 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1573 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1574 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1578 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1579 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1583 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1585 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1586 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1588 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1589 ignored. Closes: #337664
1591 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1596 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1602 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1607 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1608 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1609 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1610 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1611 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1612 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1613 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1617 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1620 version. Closes: #350607
1621 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1622 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1623 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1624 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1628 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1631 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1632 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1633 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1637 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1644 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1653 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1657 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1660 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1661 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1662 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1663 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1664 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1665 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1672 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1673 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1678 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1681 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1685 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1688 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1692 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1695 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1696 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1697 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1698 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1699 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1700 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1704 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1708 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1709 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1710 link. Closes: #346405
1711 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1713 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1714 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1715 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1716 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1717 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1718 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1719 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1723 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1730 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1736 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1739 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1743 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1746 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1755 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1756 installed. Closes: #342033
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1760 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1763 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1764 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1765 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1770 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1776 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1782 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1786 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1787 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1788 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1792 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1795 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1800 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1813 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1816 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1817 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1818 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1819 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1820 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1821 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1822 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1824 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1828 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1831 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1832 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1839 in standard man dirs.
1840 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1844 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1850 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1853 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1872 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1875 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1876 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1880 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1883 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1884 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1885 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1887 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1889 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1895 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1904 mode. Closes: #324161
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1911 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1912 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1913 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1914 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1922 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1923 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1924 is necesary for sanity.
1925 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1926 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1933 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1934 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1941 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1954 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1955 released, so use at your own risk.
1956 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1957 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1959 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1960 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1961 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1962 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1963 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1964 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1965 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1966 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1967 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1968 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1969 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1970 including twice per config file line now..
1971 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1972 and simplfy the rules file.
1973 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1974 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1975 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1977 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1978 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1985 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1992 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1999 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2006 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2007 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2008 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2009 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2010 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2011 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2018 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2019 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2020 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2025 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2028 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2029 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2034 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2037 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2038 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2039 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2044 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2047 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2048 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2049 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2053 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2066 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2069 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2070 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2071 unknown. Closes: #282924
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2075 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2082 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Spanish man page updates.
2085 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2099 * dh_desktop: reindent
2100 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2101 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2105 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2113 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2119 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2123 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2126 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2127 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2131 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2153 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2160 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2161 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2162 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2163 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2164 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2165 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2167 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2168 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2169 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2170 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2171 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2172 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2173 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2174 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2175 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2176 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2177 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2178 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2179 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2180 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2181 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2182 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2196 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2200 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2203 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2210 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2217 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2221 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2227 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2242 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2243 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2244 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2248 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2251 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2255 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2258 but occasionally right and necessary.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2262 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2265 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2266 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2267 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2268 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2269 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2273 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2276 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2278 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2279 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2280 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2281 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2282 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2283 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2284 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2285 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2286 postinst scripts for udebs.
2287 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2291 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2294 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2296 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2297 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2301 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2307 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2314 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2321 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2324 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2328 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2331 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2335 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2338 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2341 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2342 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2346 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2355 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2362 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2363 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2364 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2366 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2368 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2369 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2370 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2374 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2377 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2382 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2385 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2386 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2387 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2392 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2398 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2407 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2408 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2409 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2410 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2411 associated -dbg packages.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2418 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2425 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2432 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2439 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2447 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2454 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2462 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2470 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2471 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2472 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2473 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2474 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2475 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2476 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2477 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2478 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2479 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2486 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2491 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2494 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2495 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2502 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2503 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2511 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2518 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2525 out section number. Closes: #204731
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2551 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2552 removal. Closes: #204286
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2559 renaming. Closes: #203548
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2566 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2567 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2583 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2589 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2592 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2593 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2594 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2601 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2602 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2622 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2630 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2637 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2639 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2640 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2647 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2655 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2667 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2674 it break hard links (see #188663).
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2681 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2691 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2695 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2696 debconf-mergetemplates
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2700 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2703 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2707 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2710 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2714 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2717 * Update debhelper(1).
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2721 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2724 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2725 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2726 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2727 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2728 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2735 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2736 the shell. Closes: #178524
2737 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2741 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2744 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2751 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2755 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2758 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2759 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2760 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2761 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2766 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2769 files from installation.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2776 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2777 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2784 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2791 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2795 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2801 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2807 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2811 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2812 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2814 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2818 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2821 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2822 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2823 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2824 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2828 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2831 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2835 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2838 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2839 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2843 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2847 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2852 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2862 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2863 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2864 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2869 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2872 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2873 practice. Closes: #163303
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2877 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2893 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2895 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2896 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2897 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2898 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2899 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2903 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2906 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2917 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2927 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2932 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2938 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2957 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2960 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2961 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2962 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2963 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2974 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2981 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2984 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2985 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2992 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2993 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2994 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2995 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2996 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3003 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3005 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3010 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3013 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3020 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3021 right thing. Closes: #150644
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Stupid, evil typo.
3028 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3042 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3043 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3048 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3057 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3064 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3065 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3073 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3086 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3087 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Removing perl warning message.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3103 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3106 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3107 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3108 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3109 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3110 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3111 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3112 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3113 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3117 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3123 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3133 debconf-mergetemplate.
3134 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3135 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3142 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3143 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3144 dh_install, which ...
3145 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3146 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3147 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3148 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3149 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3150 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3151 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3152 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3153 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3154 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3155 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3156 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3157 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3158 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3159 other minor changes.
3160 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3161 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3162 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3163 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3164 course there's -X ..)
3165 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3166 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3167 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3169 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3170 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3171 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3172 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3173 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3178 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3184 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3187 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3191 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3197 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3203 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3209 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3215 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3218 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3219 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3220 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3221 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3223 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3224 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3228 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3234 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3237 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3241 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3244 upset. Closes: #131322
3246 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3248 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3251 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3252 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3253 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3254 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3255 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3256 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3257 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3258 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3259 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3260 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3261 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3262 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3263 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3264 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3265 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3267 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3271 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3274 - Better indenting of generated code.
3275 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3279 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3283 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3284 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3285 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3286 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3287 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3288 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3289 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3293 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3296 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3300 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3303 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3304 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3305 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3306 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3307 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3308 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3309 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3310 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3311 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3312 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3313 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3314 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3315 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3316 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3317 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3322 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3328 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3331 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3332 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3336 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3339 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3340 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3344 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3350 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3353 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3354 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3355 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3356 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3357 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3362 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3368 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3371 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3375 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3378 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3383 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3389 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3392 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3396 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3402 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3406 Also some indentation fixes.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3410 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3413 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3414 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3415 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3416 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3417 Closes: #106514, #85520
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3421 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3427 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3433 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3439 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3445 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3451 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3454 change it in debhelper v4..
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3458 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3464 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3467 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3471 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3474 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3484 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3487 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3488 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3489 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3490 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3491 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3492 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3493 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3494 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3495 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3496 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3497 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3498 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3502 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3505 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3509 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3516 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3519 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3520 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3521 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3522 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3523 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3524 program those options go to. So, for example,
3525 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3526 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3527 something complex. Closes: #89311
3528 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3532 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3535 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3536 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3537 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3541 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3544 through loop. Closes: #98598
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3548 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Missing semi-colon.
3551 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3552 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3556 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3559 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3560 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3561 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3565 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3568 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3569 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3573 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3576 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3580 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3583 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3584 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3591 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3592 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3593 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3597 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3600 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3601 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3602 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3606 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3609 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3613 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3619 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3625 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3631 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3637 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3640 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3644 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3647 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3648 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3649 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3650 followed. Closes: #85483
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3654 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3656 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3657 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3658 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3662 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3665 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3666 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3667 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3668 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3669 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3670 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3671 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3672 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3673 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3674 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3675 Closes: #88464, #77743
3676 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3677 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3678 us to deal with that gracefully.
3679 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3681 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3682 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3683 a while, Closes: #51225
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3687 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3693 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3696 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3700 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3704 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3709 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3712 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3713 don't make packlist files.
3714 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3715 debhelper coding standards.
3716 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3717 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3721 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3724 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3728 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3731 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3732 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3733 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3734 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3735 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3736 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3737 but is mildly deprecated.
3738 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3739 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3740 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3741 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3742 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3743 switching to statoverrides..
3744 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3745 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3746 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3747 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3748 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3749 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3751 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3752 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3753 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3754 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3755 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3756 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3757 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3758 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3759 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3761 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3762 variable names, pod man pages).
3763 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3764 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3765 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3766 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3767 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3768 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3769 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3773 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3779 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3786 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3789 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3795 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3796 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3797 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3803 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3804 they were previously ignored.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3808 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3810 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3811 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3815 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3817 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3818 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3819 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3823 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3825 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3831 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3832 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3838 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3839 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3840 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3841 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3842 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3843 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3844 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3845 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3846 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3847 it is an obsolete program.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3853 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3861 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3867 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3869 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3871 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3873 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3883 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * typo: Closes, #78567
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3889 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3904 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3905 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3906 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3907 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3908 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3915 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3923 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3924 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3925 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3926 backwards-compatibility.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3933 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3934 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3935 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3936 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3937 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3938 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3940 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3941 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3942 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3944 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3946 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3947 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3948 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3949 should now be raised to severity important..
3950 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3951 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3955 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3958 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3969 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3975 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3988 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3991 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3992 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3993 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3994 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3998 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4004 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4007 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4008 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4009 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4010 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4011 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4012 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4017 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4020 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4024 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4030 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4033 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4041 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4042 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4043 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4044 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4052 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4055 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4058 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4059 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4062 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4064 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4065 the TODO entry about it.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4079 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4080 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4087 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4088 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4089 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4090 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4100 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4110 (this appears to be logal).
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4117 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4118 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4119 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4120 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4124 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4133 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4134 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4135 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4136 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4149 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4163 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4164 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4165 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4177 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4183 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4186 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4187 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4188 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4189 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4190 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4191 notice until v2 is complete.
4192 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4193 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4194 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4195 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4196 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4197 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4199 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4200 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4201 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4202 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4222 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4236 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4237 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4238 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4239 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4247 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4248 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4249 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4257 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4258 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4265 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4272 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4286 depend on the build and install targets.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4293 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4319 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4320 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4321 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4322 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4323 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4324 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4326 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4327 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4328 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4329 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4330 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4331 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4332 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4342 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4348 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4351 right place. Closes: #55065
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4355 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4365 * Copyright date updates.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4369 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4372 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4377 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4390 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4396 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4402 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4411 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4412 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4413 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4414 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4415 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4416 bits until all files have been registered.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_installmanpages:
4423 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4424 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4425 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4426 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4427 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4428 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4429 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4430 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4431 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4432 otherwise change the result at all.
4434 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4435 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4436 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4437 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4438 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4443 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4449 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4452 act on files that don't exist.
4453 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4454 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4455 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4457 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4458 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4459 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4460 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4470 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4476 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4479 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4483 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4486 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4488 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4489 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4490 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4494 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4497 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4498 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4499 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4500 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4501 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4502 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4503 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4505 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4507 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4511 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4518 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4533 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4549 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4552 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4553 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4554 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4555 I made some changes, though:
4556 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4557 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4558 that is a clear violation of policy.
4559 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4560 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4561 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4562 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4563 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4564 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4565 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4566 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4567 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4569 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4573 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4582 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4589 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4590 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4608 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4611 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4612 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4613 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4614 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4615 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4616 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4617 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4631 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4632 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4636 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4645 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4649 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4652 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4653 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4659 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4668 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4675 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4676 for the dependancies to be generated.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4683 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4690 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4691 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4692 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4700 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4701 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4720 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4733 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4734 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4735 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4736 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4737 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4738 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4739 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4740 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4741 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4742 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4743 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4744 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4748 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4751 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4752 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4754 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4755 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4756 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4757 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4758 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4759 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4761 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4762 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4769 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4783 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4791 for building debhelper.
4792 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4806 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4813 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4814 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4815 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4816 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4817 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4818 it's always available.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4825 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4826 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4827 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4831 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4834 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4835 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4848 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4858 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4861 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4862 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4863 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4870 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4878 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4879 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4881 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4882 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4886 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4892 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4901 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4905 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4908 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4909 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4911 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4915 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4918 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4919 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4920 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4924 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4927 things if CDPATH is set.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4931 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4940 seems to make sense for the transition.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4947 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4952 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4955 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4956 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4960 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4963 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4970 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4971 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4972 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4973 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4983 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4986 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4987 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4988 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4989 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4990 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4991 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4992 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4993 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4994 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4995 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5003 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5004 * README: mention doc/v2
5005 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5006 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5012 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5013 be using this script RSN.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5017 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5020 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5021 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5022 more than 1 init script.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5029 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5033 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Changed perl version detection.
5036 * Changed call to find.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5040 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5043 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5045 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5050 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Really include dh_installpam.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5056 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5059 * Wrote man page for same.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5066 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5067 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5072 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5079 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5082 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5083 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5084 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5085 x bit was being set!
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5092 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5093 well. (Closes: 38900)
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5100 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5101 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5111 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5118 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5127 help from Julian Gilbey.
5128 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5129 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5130 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5131 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5132 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5133 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5134 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5152 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5167 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5174 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5181 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5185 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5194 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5198 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5204 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5210 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5213 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5214 may be deleted. (#35845)
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5218 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Various man page enhancements.
5221 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5226 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5229 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5230 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5237 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5238 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5239 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5241 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5242 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5253 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * Another very minor typo fix.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5259 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * Very minor typo fix.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5265 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5268 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5269 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5279 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5282 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5283 variables properly (#34850).
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5287 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5293 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5296 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5297 (automatically generated by build process).
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5301 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5303 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5307 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5310 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5311 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5313 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5317 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5320 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5324 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * README: minor typo fix.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5333 leave it at that. :-)
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5337 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5343 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5352 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5353 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5354 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5361 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5368 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5372 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5375 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5376 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5377 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5378 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5382 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5385 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5386 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5387 Craig Small for spotting this.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5391 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5394 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5395 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5399 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5405 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5408 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5412 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5414 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5415 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5416 working on the last version of debhelper.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5423 being made. (#23255)
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5433 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5436 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5440 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5443 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5444 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5445 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5446 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5453 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5454 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5455 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5456 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5458 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5459 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5461 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5466 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5478 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5481 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5482 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5483 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5484 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5485 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5486 suidregister actually supports it.
5487 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5488 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5492 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5499 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5502 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5503 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5504 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5505 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5506 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5507 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5508 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5512 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5514 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5515 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5519 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5522 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5523 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5524 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5525 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5532 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5534 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5535 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5536 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5537 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5538 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5539 effect, either. (#30118)
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5543 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5549 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5552 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5553 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5557 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5563 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5566 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5567 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5568 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5569 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5573 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5576 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5577 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5587 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5590 packages, painlessly.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5594 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5612 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * The perl conversion is complete.
5616 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5618 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5619 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5620 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5625 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5628 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5629 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5630 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5637 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5639 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5641 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5642 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5646 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5649 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5650 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5654 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5660 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5663 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5664 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5665 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5666 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5667 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5671 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5674 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5675 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5676 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5677 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5681 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5684 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5688 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5691 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5692 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5693 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5694 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5695 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5696 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5697 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5698 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5702 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5708 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5711 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5712 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5713 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5718 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5721 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5725 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5728 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5732 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5735 sections of shared libraries.
5736 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5737 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5738 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5739 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5740 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5741 things you don't want them to.
5742 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5743 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5747 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5750 shared libraries. (#26414)
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5756 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5757 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5758 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5759 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5763 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5767 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5769 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5770 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5771 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5772 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5773 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5777 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5780 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5784 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5787 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5788 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5793 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5796 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5800 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5803 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5804 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5805 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5806 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5807 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5809 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5810 remove debian/files properly.
5811 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5812 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5813 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5814 * Removed bogus menu file.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5818 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5821 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5825 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5828 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5829 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5830 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5831 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5832 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5833 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5837 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5840 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5841 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5842 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5843 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5847 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5854 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5857 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5858 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5860 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5861 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5862 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5863 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5864 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5865 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5869 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5872 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5873 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5874 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5875 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5876 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5877 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5878 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5879 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5880 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5881 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5882 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5883 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5884 passed any switches.
5885 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5889 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5892 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5893 at all for a long while.
5894 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5895 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5896 large chunks in the process.
5897 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5898 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5899 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5907 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5909 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5914 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5917 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5918 that don't always have the same files in them.
5919 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5920 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5921 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5925 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5929 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5930 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5931 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5932 updating 27 man pages.
5933 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5934 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5935 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5936 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5937 programs act on. (#25247)
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5941 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5945 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5946 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5947 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5948 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5949 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5950 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5955 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5962 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5969 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5972 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5976 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5982 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5985 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5986 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5987 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5988 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5989 package by accident.
5990 * Is version 1.0 next?
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5994 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5997 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5998 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6002 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6005 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6006 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6007 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6008 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6009 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6011 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6016 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6019 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6020 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6024 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6027 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6031 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6034 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6035 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6040 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6046 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6049 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6050 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6055 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6061 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6064 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6065 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6066 past week. Thanks, guys!
6068 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6069 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6070 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6071 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6072 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6073 would do in the same situation.
6074 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6075 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6077 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6079 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6080 permissions changed.
6081 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6082 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6083 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6084 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6085 files are treated identically.
6086 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6087 * Minor man page fixes.
6088 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6089 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6090 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6094 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6097 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6098 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6099 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6100 use -X multiple times, too.
6101 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6102 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6106 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6109 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6110 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6114 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6117 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6121 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6124 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6125 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6126 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6127 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6128 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6129 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6130 shape if you're starting a new package.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6134 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6137 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6141 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6144 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6145 because of missing symlinks.
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6149 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6155 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6158 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6159 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6160 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6161 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6162 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6164 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6165 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6169 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6171 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6172 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6173 to be changed after the fact :-)
6174 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6178 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6180 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6181 no version string after the -V.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6185 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6187 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6188 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6193 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6196 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6200 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6203 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6204 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6205 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6206 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6207 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6208 I always welcome corrections!
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6212 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6218 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6221 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6222 * Documented this new switch.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6226 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6229 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6230 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6231 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6232 no packages use the old behavior.
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6236 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6239 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6240 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6244 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6247 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6251 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6257 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6259 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6260 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6264 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6267 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6268 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6269 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6273 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6279 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6282 into the source package by accident.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6286 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6289 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6290 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6291 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6292 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6293 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6294 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6299 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6303 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6304 inspired to implement some of it.
6305 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6309 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6312 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6316 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6319 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6320 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6324 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6327 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6328 have done.) (#17598)
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6332 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6338 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6344 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6347 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6351 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6354 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6355 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6359 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6362 argument processor in perl.
6363 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6364 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6365 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6366 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6370 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6373 type directories. (#16933)
6374 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6375 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6376 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6377 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6378 are supported. (#16935)
6379 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6384 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6387 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6391 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6395 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6396 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6397 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6398 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6399 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6400 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6404 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6407 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6408 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6410 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6411 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6412 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6413 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6414 a given package, or -i or -a.
6415 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6416 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6417 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6418 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6419 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6420 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6421 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6422 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6423 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6425 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6426 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6427 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6431 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6434 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6435 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6440 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6443 does not have a section.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6447 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6450 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6451 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6452 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6456 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * Fixed typo #16215.
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6462 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6465 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6466 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6467 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6468 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6469 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6474 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6477 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6478 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6479 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6484 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6490 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6492 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6496 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6498 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6499 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6500 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6501 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6502 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6503 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6504 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6508 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6514 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6517 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6521 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6524 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6525 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6526 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6530 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6533 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6537 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6539 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6543 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6546 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6550 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6552 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6553 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6557 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6559 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6566 postinst, postrm, etc.
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6570 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6576 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6578 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6579 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6580 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6581 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6582 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6583 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6587 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6590 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6591 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6595 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6598 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6605 installing package files into.
6606 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6611 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6615 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6619 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6625 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6627 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6628 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6632 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6635 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6636 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6637 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6638 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6642 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6644 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6645 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6646 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6647 multiple binary packages.
6648 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6649 should rebuild them with this version.
6650 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6654 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6657 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6661 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6664 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6668 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6671 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6672 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6673 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6674 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6675 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6676 debian/README.debian.
6677 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6678 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6679 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6680 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6681 in a few situations.)
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6685 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6691 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6697 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6700 * Fixed several man pages.
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6704 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6707 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6708 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6712 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6715 is ready for general use.
6716 * Added man pages for all commands.
6717 * Multiple binary package support.
6718 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6719 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6720 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6722 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6723 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6724 auto-installed as parameters.
6725 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6727 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6730 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6731 the package build directory it is to act on.
6732 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6733 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6734 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6738 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6740 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6741 ready to replace debstd.
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400