1 debhelper (7.4.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
4 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
5 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
6 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
7 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
8 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
9 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
10 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
11 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
12 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
13 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
14 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
15 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
16 time soon.) Closes: #554509
17 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
19 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatability level 4.
20 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
21 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
22 document id. Closes: #555677
23 * Typo. Closes: #555659
24 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
25 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
26 * autoconf: If configure fails, cat config.log. Intended to make
27 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:10:45 -0400
32 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
35 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
36 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
37 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
38 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
39 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
40 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
41 translation (#494300 part 2)
44 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
46 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
47 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
48 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
49 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
50 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
54 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
57 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
58 (It was only run once due to logging.)
59 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
60 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
61 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
62 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
63 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
64 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
65 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
66 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
67 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
68 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
72 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
76 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
79 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
80 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
84 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
87 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
88 flag with arch all/any packages.
89 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
90 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
91 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
92 situation. Closes: #540794
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
96 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
100 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
101 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
102 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
103 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
104 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
107 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
108 the default. Closes: #538201
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
113 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
117 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
118 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
119 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
120 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
121 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
123 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
124 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
125 * Above Closes: #491117
126 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
131 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
137 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
138 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
139 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
143 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
146 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
147 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
148 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
149 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
150 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
155 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
158 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
159 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
163 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
165 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
169 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
171 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
172 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
174 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
175 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
176 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
180 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
182 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
183 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
187 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
193 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
195 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
196 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
197 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
202 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
204 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
208 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
211 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
212 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
213 created by using `python' first during build and install.
215 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
220 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
222 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
226 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
228 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
229 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
233 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
235 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
239 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
241 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
245 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
247 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
248 contributed by Modestas Vainius
249 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
250 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
251 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
252 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
253 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
254 that support it. Closes: #480577
255 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
256 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
257 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
259 - Adds support for cmake.
260 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
261 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
263 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
265 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
266 that use them. The options are:
267 --sourcedir, --destdir
268 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
269 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
270 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
271 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
272 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
276 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
282 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
285 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
286 default. Closes: #537140
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
290 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
293 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
294 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
298 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
301 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
305 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
308 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
312 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
315 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
317 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
318 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
319 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
323 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
326 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
327 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
328 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
332 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
335 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
336 warning or deprecation message.
337 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
338 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
339 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
340 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
341 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
342 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
343 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
344 Closes: #534639, #357434
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
348 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
354 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
357 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
358 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
359 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
360 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
362 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
363 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
364 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
368 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
374 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
381 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
384 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
388 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
392 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
393 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
395 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
396 file support. Closes: #494914
397 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
401 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
404 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
405 parameters. Closes: #527256
406 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
407 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
408 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
412 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
416 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
417 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
418 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
422 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
425 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
426 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
427 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
431 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
434 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
435 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
437 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
438 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
439 by triggers). Closes: #521181
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
443 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
447 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
451 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
454 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
455 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
456 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
457 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
462 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
468 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
471 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
472 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
473 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
474 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
475 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
477 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
478 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
479 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
480 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
481 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
482 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
486 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
489 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
490 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
491 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
492 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
493 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
495 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
499 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
501 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
505 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
507 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
508 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
509 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
510 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
511 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
512 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
513 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
514 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
515 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
516 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
517 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
521 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
523 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
524 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
526 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
527 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
528 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
529 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
531 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
532 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
536 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
538 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
539 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
540 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
541 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
542 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
543 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
544 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
546 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
547 that uses them. Affected options are:
548 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
549 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
550 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
551 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
552 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
553 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
554 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
555 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
556 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
557 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
558 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
559 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
563 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
570 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
576 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
578 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
579 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
581 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
582 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
583 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
584 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
585 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
587 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
589 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
590 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
591 rules (see bug #509756).
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
595 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
601 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
602 * Typo. Closes: #493062
603 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
604 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
608 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
611 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
612 empty files. Closes: #490937
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
616 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
622 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
629 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
632 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
633 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
634 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
635 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
640 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
642 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
643 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
644 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
645 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
649 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
652 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
653 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
654 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
655 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
656 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
660 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
667 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
669 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
670 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
671 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
672 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
673 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
674 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
675 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
676 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
677 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
678 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
682 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
685 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
686 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
687 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
688 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
690 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
691 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
692 breaking backwards compatability.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
696 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
699 message in perl 5.10.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
703 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
709 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Convert copyright file to new format.
712 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
716 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
719 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
723 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
726 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
727 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
728 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
729 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
730 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
731 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
732 logging by dh_listpackages.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
736 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
739 run and there are no packages of that type.
740 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
741 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
742 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
743 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
745 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
746 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
750 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
752 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
753 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
754 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
758 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
761 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
762 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
764 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
765 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
766 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
767 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
768 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
769 planned but not yet implemented.)
770 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
771 if the Makefile has such a target.
772 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
773 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
774 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
775 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
776 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
777 but not yet implemented.)
778 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
779 recommended default, especially when using dh.
780 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
781 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
782 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
784 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
786 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
787 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
789 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
790 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
791 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
796 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
799 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
800 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
804 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
806 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
807 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
808 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
812 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
818 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
824 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
827 just those installed by the program.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
831 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
834 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
835 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
839 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
842 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
843 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
844 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
845 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
849 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
852 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
853 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
857 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
860 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
861 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
865 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
868 with policy. Closes: #461392
869 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
870 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
871 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
872 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
873 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
877 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
880 Closes: #460340, #460351
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
884 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
887 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
888 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
889 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
890 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
894 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
897 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
898 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
899 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
900 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
901 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
902 package build directory won't work.
903 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
904 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
905 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
906 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
907 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
908 mode. Closes: #459426
909 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
914 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
917 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
921 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
925 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
926 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
927 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
928 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
929 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
930 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
934 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
937 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
938 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
939 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
940 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
944 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
947 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
948 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
949 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
950 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
951 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
955 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
958 debian/package.triggers files.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
962 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
965 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
969 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
972 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
973 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
974 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
975 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
980 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
983 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
987 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
990 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
991 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
993 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
998 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1002 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1003 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1004 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1008 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1015 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1022 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1025 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1027 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1028 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1029 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1031 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1032 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1033 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1037 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1040 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1041 * Update urls to web page.
1042 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1043 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1044 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1045 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1049 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1052 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1053 - typo in alternatives call
1054 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1056 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1057 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1061 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1064 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1069 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1075 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1081 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1084 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1086 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1087 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1088 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1089 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1090 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1091 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1092 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1093 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1094 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1095 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1096 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1100 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1103 package install. Closes: #415717
1104 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1105 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1106 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1107 script and then remove the python files.
1108 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1109 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1110 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1111 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1112 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1113 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1114 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1115 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1116 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1117 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1118 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1119 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1120 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1124 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Correct typo in french translation
1130 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1131 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1133 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1135 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1136 Closes: #406921, #381940
1137 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1139 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1140 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1141 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1142 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1143 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1144 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1145 specified). Closes: #381851
1146 * Misc minor changes.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1150 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1157 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1158 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1162 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1168 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1169 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1172 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1173 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1175 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1176 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1177 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1178 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1182 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1185 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1188 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1192 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1198 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1204 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1205 a difficult situation.
1206 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1207 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1208 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1209 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1210 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1211 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1212 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1213 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1214 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1215 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1219 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Non-maintainer upload.
1222 * Update of dh_python
1223 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1224 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1226 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1227 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1228 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1229 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1230 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1232 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1234 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Non-maintainer upload.
1237 * Update of dh_python
1238 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1239 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1240 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1241 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1242 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1243 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1244 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1245 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1246 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1247 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1249 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1250 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1251 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1252 the not too-distant future).
1253 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1254 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1255 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1256 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1257 thus made the build fail.
1259 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1261 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Non-maintainer upload.
1264 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1266 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1268 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1271 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1272 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1273 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1274 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1275 package. Closes: #301424
1276 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1277 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1278 fonts). Closes: #372686
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1282 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1288 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1289 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1290 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1291 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1292 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1293 above, but already depends on that.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1297 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1300 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1301 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1302 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1303 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1304 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1308 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1320 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1321 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1325 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1328 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1332 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1336 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1337 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1338 new version (0.24.1).
1339 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1340 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1343 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1344 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1345 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1346 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1347 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1348 new directory on their own.
1349 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1350 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1354 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1357 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1358 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1359 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1360 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1364 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1367 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1368 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1369 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1370 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1371 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1375 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1381 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1385 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1386 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1390 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1391 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1395 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1397 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1398 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1400 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1401 ignored. Closes: #337664
1403 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1408 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1414 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1419 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1420 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1421 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1422 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1423 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1424 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1425 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1429 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1432 version. Closes: #350607
1433 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1434 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1435 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1436 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1440 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1443 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1444 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1445 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1449 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1456 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1462 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1465 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1469 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1472 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1473 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1474 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1475 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1476 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1477 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1481 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1484 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1485 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1490 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1493 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1497 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1500 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1504 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1507 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1508 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1509 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1510 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1511 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1512 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1516 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1520 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1521 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1522 link. Closes: #346405
1523 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1525 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1526 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1527 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1528 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1529 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1530 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1531 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1535 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1542 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1548 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1551 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1555 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1558 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1563 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1567 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1568 installed. Closes: #342033
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1572 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1575 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1576 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1577 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1582 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1588 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1598 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1599 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1600 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1604 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1607 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1612 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1619 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1625 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1628 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1629 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1630 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1631 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1632 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1633 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1634 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1636 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1640 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1643 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1644 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1651 in standard man dirs.
1652 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1656 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1662 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1665 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1670 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1677 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1684 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1687 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1688 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1692 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1695 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1696 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1697 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1699 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1701 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1707 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1713 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1716 mode. Closes: #324161
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1720 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1723 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1724 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1725 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1726 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1731 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1734 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1735 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1736 is necesary for sanity.
1737 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1738 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1743 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1745 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1746 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1750 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1753 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1763 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1766 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1767 released, so use at your own risk.
1768 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1769 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1771 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1772 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1773 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1774 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1775 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1776 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1777 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1778 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1779 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1780 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1781 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1782 including twice per config file line now..
1783 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1784 and simplfy the rules file.
1785 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1786 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1787 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1789 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1790 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1794 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1797 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1804 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1811 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1815 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1818 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1819 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1820 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1821 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1822 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1823 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1830 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1831 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1832 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1837 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1840 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1841 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1846 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1849 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1850 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1851 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1856 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1859 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1860 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1861 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1871 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1878 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1881 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1882 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1883 unknown. Closes: #282924
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1887 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1894 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Spanish man page updates.
1897 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1911 * dh_desktop: reindent
1912 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1913 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1925 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1931 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1935 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1938 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1939 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1943 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1965 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1972 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1973 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1974 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1975 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1976 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1977 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1979 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1980 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1981 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1982 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1983 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1984 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1985 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1986 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1987 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1988 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1989 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1990 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1991 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1992 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1993 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1994 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2008 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2012 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2015 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2019 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2022 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2026 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2029 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2039 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2045 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2051 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2054 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2055 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2056 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2060 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2063 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2067 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2070 but occasionally right and necessary.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2077 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2078 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2079 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2080 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2081 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2085 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2088 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2090 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2091 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2092 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2093 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2094 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2095 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2096 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2097 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2098 postinst scripts for udebs.
2099 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2103 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2106 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2108 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2109 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2113 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2119 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2133 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2136 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2140 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2143 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2147 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2150 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2153 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2154 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2158 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2167 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2174 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2175 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2176 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2178 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2180 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2181 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2182 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2189 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2194 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2197 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2198 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2199 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2204 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2210 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2219 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2220 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2221 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2222 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2223 associated -dbg packages.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2227 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2230 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2237 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2241 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2244 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2248 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2251 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2256 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2259 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2266 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2274 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2282 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2283 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2284 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2285 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2286 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2287 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2288 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2289 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2290 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2291 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2298 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2306 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2307 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2314 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2315 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2323 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2330 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2337 out section number. Closes: #204731
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2363 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2364 removal. Closes: #204286
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2371 renaming. Closes: #203548
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2378 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2379 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2395 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2401 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2404 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2405 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2406 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2413 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2414 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2434 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2442 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2449 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2451 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2452 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2459 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2467 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2479 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2486 it break hard links (see #188663).
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2493 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2497 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2503 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2507 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2508 debconf-mergetemplates
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2512 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2515 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2522 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2526 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2529 * Update debhelper(1).
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2533 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2536 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2537 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2538 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2539 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2540 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2544 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2547 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2548 the shell. Closes: #178524
2549 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2553 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2556 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2560 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2563 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2567 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2570 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2571 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2572 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2573 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2578 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2581 files from installation.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2585 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2588 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2589 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2593 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2596 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2600 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2603 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2607 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2613 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2619 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2623 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2624 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2626 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2630 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2633 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2634 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2635 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2636 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2640 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2643 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2647 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2650 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2651 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2655 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2659 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2674 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2675 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2676 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2684 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2685 practice. Closes: #163303
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2689 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2702 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2705 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2707 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2708 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2709 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2710 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2711 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2715 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2718 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2739 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2744 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2772 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2773 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2774 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2775 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2780 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2786 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2796 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2797 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2804 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2805 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2806 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2807 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2808 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2812 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2815 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2817 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2822 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2825 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2829 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2832 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2833 right thing. Closes: #150644
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2837 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Stupid, evil typo.
2840 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2844 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2851 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2854 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2855 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2866 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2869 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2873 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2876 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2877 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2885 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2895 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2898 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2899 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2903 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Removing perl warning message.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2918 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2919 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2920 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2921 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2922 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2923 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2924 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2925 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2945 debconf-mergetemplate.
2946 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2947 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2954 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2955 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2956 dh_install, which ...
2957 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2958 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2959 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2960 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2961 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2962 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2963 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2964 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2965 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2966 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2967 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2968 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2969 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2970 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2971 other minor changes.
2972 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2973 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2974 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2975 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2976 course there's -X ..)
2977 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2978 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2979 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2981 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2982 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2983 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2984 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2985 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2990 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2996 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2999 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3003 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3009 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3015 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3021 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3027 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3030 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3031 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3032 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3033 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3035 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3036 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3040 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3046 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3049 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3053 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3056 upset. Closes: #131322
3058 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3060 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3063 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
3064 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3065 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3066 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3067 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3068 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3069 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3070 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3071 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3072 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3073 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3074 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3075 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3076 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3077 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3079 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3083 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3086 - Better indenting of generated code.
3087 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3091 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3095 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3096 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3097 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3098 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3099 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3100 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3101 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3105 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3108 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3112 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3115 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3116 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3117 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3118 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3119 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3120 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3121 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3122 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3123 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3124 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3125 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3126 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3127 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3128 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3129 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3134 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3140 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3143 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3144 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3148 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3151 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3152 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3156 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3162 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3165 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3166 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3167 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3168 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3169 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3174 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3180 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3183 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3187 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3190 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3195 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3201 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3204 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3208 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3214 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3218 Also some indentation fixes.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3222 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3225 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3226 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3227 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3228 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3229 Closes: #106514, #85520
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3233 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3239 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3245 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3251 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3257 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3263 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3266 change it in debhelper v4..
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3270 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3276 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3279 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3283 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3286 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3290 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3296 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3299 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3300 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3301 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3302 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3303 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3304 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3305 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3306 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3307 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3308 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3309 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3310 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3314 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3317 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3321 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3328 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3331 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3332 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3333 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3334 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3335 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3336 program those options go to. So, for example,
3337 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3338 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3339 something complex. Closes: #89311
3340 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3344 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3347 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3348 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3349 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3353 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3356 through loop. Closes: #98598
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3360 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Missing semi-colon.
3363 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3364 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3368 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3371 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3372 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3373 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3377 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3380 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3381 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3385 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3388 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3392 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3395 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3396 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3400 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3403 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3404 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3405 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3409 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3412 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3413 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3414 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3418 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3421 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3425 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3431 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3437 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3443 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3449 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3452 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3456 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3459 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3460 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3461 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3462 followed. Closes: #85483
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3466 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3468 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3469 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3470 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3474 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3477 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3478 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3479 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3480 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3481 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3482 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3483 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3484 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3485 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3486 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3487 Closes: #88464, #77743
3488 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3489 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3490 us to deal with that gracefully.
3491 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3493 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3494 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3495 a while, Closes: #51225
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3499 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3505 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3508 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3512 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3516 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3521 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3524 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3525 don't make packlist files.
3526 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3527 debhelper coding standards.
3528 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3529 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3533 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3536 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3540 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3543 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3544 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3545 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3546 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3547 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3548 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3549 but is mildly deprecated.
3550 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3551 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3552 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3553 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3554 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3555 switching to statoverrides..
3556 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3557 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3558 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3559 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3560 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3561 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3563 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3564 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3565 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3566 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3567 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3568 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3569 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3570 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3571 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3573 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3574 variable names, pod man pages).
3575 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3576 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3577 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3578 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3579 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3580 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3581 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3585 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3591 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3598 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3601 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3605 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3607 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3608 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3609 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3613 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3615 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3616 they were previously ignored.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3620 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3622 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3623 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3627 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3629 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3630 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3631 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3637 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3641 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3643 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3644 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3648 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3650 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3651 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3652 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3653 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3654 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3655 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3656 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3657 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3658 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3659 it is an obsolete program.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3665 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3669 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3673 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3675 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3679 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3681 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3683 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3685 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3689 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3695 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * typo: Closes, #78567
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3701 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3707 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3713 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3716 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3717 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3718 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3719 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3720 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3724 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3727 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3732 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3735 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3736 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3737 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3738 backwards-compatability.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3742 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3745 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3746 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3747 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3748 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3749 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3750 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3752 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3753 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3754 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3756 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3758 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3759 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3760 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3761 should now be raised to severity important..
3762 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3763 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3770 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3775 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3803 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3804 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3805 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3806 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3810 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3819 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3820 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3821 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3822 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3823 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3824 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3832 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3845 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3853 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3854 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3855 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3856 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3860 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3864 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3867 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3870 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3871 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3874 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3876 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3877 the TODO entry about it.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3881 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3891 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3892 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3899 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3900 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3901 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3902 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3912 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3922 (this appears to be logal).
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3929 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3930 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3931 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3932 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3945 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3946 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3947 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3948 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3958 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3961 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3975 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3976 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3977 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3998 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3999 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4000 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4001 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4002 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4003 notice until v2 is complete.
4004 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4005 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4006 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4007 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4008 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4009 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4011 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4012 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4013 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4014 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4024 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4034 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4045 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4048 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4049 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4050 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4051 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4059 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4060 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4061 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4066 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4069 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4070 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4077 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4084 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4098 depend on the build and install targets.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4105 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4122 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4128 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4131 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4132 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4133 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4134 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4135 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4136 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4138 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4139 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4140 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4141 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4142 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4143 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4144 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4154 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4163 right place. Closes: #55065
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4167 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4177 * Copyright date updates.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4181 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4184 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4189 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4195 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4202 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4208 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4214 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4223 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4224 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4225 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4226 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4227 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4228 bits until all files have been registered.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4232 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installmanpages:
4235 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4236 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4237 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4238 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4239 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4240 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4241 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4242 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4243 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4244 otherwise change the result at all.
4246 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4247 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4248 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4249 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4250 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4261 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4264 act on files that don't exist.
4265 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4266 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4267 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4269 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4270 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4271 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4272 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4276 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4282 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4288 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4291 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4295 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4298 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4300 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4301 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4302 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4306 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4309 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4310 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4311 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4312 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4313 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4314 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4315 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4317 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4319 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4330 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4336 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4342 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4345 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4349 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4355 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4364 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4365 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4366 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4367 I made some changes, though:
4368 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4369 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4370 that is a clear violation of policy.
4371 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4372 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4373 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4374 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4375 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4376 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4377 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4378 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4379 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4381 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4385 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4394 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4398 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4401 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4402 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4407 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4413 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4420 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4423 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4424 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4425 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4426 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4427 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4428 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4429 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4443 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4444 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4457 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4464 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4465 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4471 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4480 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4487 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4488 for the dependancies to be generated.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4492 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4495 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4499 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4502 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4503 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4504 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4512 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4513 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4532 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4545 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4546 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4547 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4548 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4549 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4550 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4551 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4552 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4553 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4554 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4555 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4556 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4563 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4564 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4566 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4567 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4568 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4569 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4570 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4571 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4573 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4574 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4578 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4581 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4592 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4595 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4603 for building debhelper.
4604 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4608 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4615 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4618 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4625 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4626 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4627 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4628 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4629 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4630 it's always available.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4637 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4638 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4639 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4646 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4647 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4660 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4673 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4674 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4675 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4682 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4690 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4691 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4693 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4694 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4713 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4720 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4721 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4723 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4727 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4730 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4731 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4732 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4739 things if CDPATH is set.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4752 seems to make sense for the transition.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4759 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4767 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4768 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4775 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4782 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4783 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4784 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4785 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4798 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4799 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4800 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4801 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4802 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4803 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4804 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4805 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4806 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4807 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4812 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4815 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4816 * README: mention doc/v2
4817 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4818 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4822 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4824 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4825 be using this script RSN.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4832 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4833 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4834 more than 1 init script.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4838 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4841 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4845 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Changed perl version detection.
4848 * Changed call to find.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4852 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4855 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4857 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4862 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Really include dh_installpam.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4868 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4871 * Wrote man page for same.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4875 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4878 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4879 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4884 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4891 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4894 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4895 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4896 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4897 x bit was being set!
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4901 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4904 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4905 well. (Closes: 38900)
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4909 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4912 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4913 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4917 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4923 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4936 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4939 help from Julian Gilbey.
4940 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4941 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4942 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4943 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4944 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4945 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4946 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4951 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4976 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4979 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4983 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4986 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4990 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4993 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5006 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5016 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5022 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5025 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5026 may be deleted. (#35845)
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5030 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Various man page enhancements.
5033 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5038 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5041 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5042 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5046 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5049 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5050 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5051 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5053 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5054 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5059 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5065 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * Another very minor typo fix.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5071 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * Very minor typo fix.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5077 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5080 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5081 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5085 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5091 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5094 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5095 variables properly (#34850).
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5099 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5105 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5108 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5109 (automatically generated by build process).
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5113 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5115 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5119 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5122 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5123 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5125 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5129 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5132 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5136 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * README: minor typo fix.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5142 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5145 leave it at that. :-)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5149 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5155 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5161 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5164 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5165 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5166 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5170 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5173 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5180 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5184 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5187 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5188 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5189 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5190 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5194 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5197 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5198 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5199 Craig Small for spotting this.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5206 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5207 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5211 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5220 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5224 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5226 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5227 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5228 working on the last version of debhelper.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5232 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5235 being made. (#23255)
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5248 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5252 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5255 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5256 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5257 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5258 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5262 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5265 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5266 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5267 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5268 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5270 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5271 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5273 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5278 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5284 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5290 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5293 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5294 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5295 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5296 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5297 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5298 suidregister actually supports it.
5299 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5300 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5304 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5311 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5314 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5315 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5316 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5317 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5318 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5319 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5320 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5324 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5326 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5327 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5331 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5334 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5335 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5336 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5337 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5341 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5344 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5346 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5347 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5348 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5349 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5350 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5351 effect, either. (#30118)
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5355 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5361 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5364 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5365 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5369 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5375 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5378 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5379 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5380 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5381 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5385 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5388 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5389 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5393 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5399 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5402 packages, painlessly.
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5406 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5412 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5418 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5424 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * The perl conversion is complete.
5428 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5430 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5431 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5432 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5440 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5441 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5442 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5446 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5449 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5451 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5453 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5454 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5461 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5462 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5466 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5475 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5476 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5477 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5478 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5479 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5483 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5486 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5487 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5488 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5489 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5496 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5500 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5503 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5504 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5505 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5506 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5507 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5508 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5509 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5510 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5514 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5520 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5523 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5524 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5525 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5533 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5537 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5540 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5544 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5547 sections of shared libraries.
5548 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5549 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5550 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5551 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5552 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5553 things you don't want them to.
5554 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5555 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5559 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5562 shared libraries. (#26414)
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5568 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5569 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5570 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5571 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5575 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5579 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5581 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5582 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5583 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5584 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5585 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5589 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5592 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5596 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5599 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5600 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5608 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5612 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5615 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5616 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5617 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5618 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5619 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5621 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5622 remove debian/files properly.
5623 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5624 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5625 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5626 * Removed bogus menu file.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5630 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5633 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5637 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5640 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5641 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5642 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5643 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5644 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5645 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5649 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5652 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5653 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5654 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5655 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5659 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5666 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5669 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5670 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5672 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5673 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5674 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5675 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5676 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5677 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5681 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5684 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5685 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5686 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5687 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5688 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5689 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5690 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5691 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5692 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5693 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5694 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5695 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5696 passed any switches.
5697 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5701 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5704 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5705 at all for a long while.
5706 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5707 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5708 large chunks in the process.
5709 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5710 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5711 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5719 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5721 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5726 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5729 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5730 that don't always have the same files in them.
5731 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5732 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5733 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5737 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5741 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5742 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5743 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5744 updating 27 man pages.
5745 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5746 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5747 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5748 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5749 programs act on. (#25247)
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5753 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5757 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5758 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5759 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5760 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5761 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5762 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5767 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5774 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5781 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5784 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5788 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5794 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5797 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5798 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5799 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5800 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5801 package by accident.
5802 * Is version 1.0 next?
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5806 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5809 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5810 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5814 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5817 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5818 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5819 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5820 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5821 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5823 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5828 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5831 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5832 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5836 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5839 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5843 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5846 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5847 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5852 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5858 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5861 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5862 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5867 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5873 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5876 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5877 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5878 past week. Thanks, guys!
5880 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5881 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5882 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5883 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5884 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5885 would do in the same situation.
5886 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5887 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5889 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5891 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5892 permissions changed.
5893 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5894 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5895 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5896 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5897 files are treated identically.
5898 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5899 * Minor man page fixes.
5900 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5901 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5902 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5906 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5909 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5910 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5911 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5912 use -X multiple times, too.
5913 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5914 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5918 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5921 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5922 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5926 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5929 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5933 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5936 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5937 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5938 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5939 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5940 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5941 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5942 shape if you're starting a new package.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5946 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5949 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5953 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5956 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5957 because of missing symlinks.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5961 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5967 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5969 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5970 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5971 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5972 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5973 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5974 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5976 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5977 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5981 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5983 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5984 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5985 to be changed after the fact :-)
5986 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5990 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5992 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5993 no version string after the -V.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5997 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5999 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6000 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6005 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6008 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6012 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6015 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6016 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6017 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6018 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6019 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6020 I always welcome corrections!
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6024 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6030 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6033 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6034 * Documented this new switch.
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6038 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6041 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6042 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6043 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6044 no packages use the old behavior.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6048 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6051 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6052 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6056 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6059 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6063 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6069 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6072 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6076 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6079 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6080 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6081 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6085 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6091 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6094 into the source package by accident.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6098 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6101 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6102 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6103 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6104 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6105 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6106 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6111 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6115 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6116 inspired to implement some of it.
6117 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6121 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6124 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6128 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6131 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6132 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6136 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6139 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6140 have done.) (#17598)
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6144 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6150 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6156 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6159 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6163 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6166 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6167 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6171 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6174 argument processor in perl.
6175 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6176 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6177 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6178 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6182 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6184 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6185 type directories. (#16933)
6186 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6187 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6188 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6189 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6190 are supported. (#16935)
6191 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6196 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6199 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6203 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6207 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6208 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6209 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6210 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6211 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6212 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6216 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6219 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6220 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6222 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6223 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6224 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6225 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6226 a given package, or -i or -a.
6227 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6228 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6229 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6230 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6231 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6232 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6233 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6234 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6235 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6237 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6238 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6239 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6243 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6246 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6247 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6252 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6255 does not have a section.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6259 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6262 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6263 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6264 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6268 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * Fixed typo #16215.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6274 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6277 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6278 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6279 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6280 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6281 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6286 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6289 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6290 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6291 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6296 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6302 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6308 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6311 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6312 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6313 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6314 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6315 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6316 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6320 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6326 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6328 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6329 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6333 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6336 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6337 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6338 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6345 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6349 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6351 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6358 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6362 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6365 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6369 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6371 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6375 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6378 postinst, postrm, etc.
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6382 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6388 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6391 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6392 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6393 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6394 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6395 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6399 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6402 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6403 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6407 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6410 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6414 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6417 installing package files into.
6418 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6423 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6427 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6431 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6437 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6440 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6444 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6446 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6447 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6448 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6449 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6450 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6454 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6456 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6457 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6458 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6459 multiple binary packages.
6460 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6461 should rebuild them with this version.
6462 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6466 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6469 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6473 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6476 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6480 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6483 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6484 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6485 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6486 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6487 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6488 debian/README.debian.
6489 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6490 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6491 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6492 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6493 in a few situations.)
6495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6497 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6499 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6503 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6509 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6512 * Fixed several man pages.
6514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6516 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6518 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6519 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6520 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6524 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6527 is ready for general use.
6528 * Added man pages for all commands.
6529 * Multiple binary package support.
6530 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6531 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6532 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6534 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6535 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6536 auto-installed as parameters.
6537 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6539 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6542 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6543 the package build directory it is to act on.
6544 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6545 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6546 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6550 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6552 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6553 ready to replace debstd.
6555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400