1 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
3 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
7 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
9 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
10 contributed by Modestas Vainius
11 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
12 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
13 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
14 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
15 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
16 that support it. Closes: #480577
17 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
18 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
19 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
21 - Adds support for cmake.
22 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
23 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
25 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
27 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
28 that use them. The options are:
29 --sourcedir, --destdir
30 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
31 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
32 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
33 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
34 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
38 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
41 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
45 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
48 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
52 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
55 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
57 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
58 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
59 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
63 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
66 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
67 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
68 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
72 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
75 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
76 warning or deprecation message.
77 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
78 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
79 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
80 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
81 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
82 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
83 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
84 Closes: #534639, #357434
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
88 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
94 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
97 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
98 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
99 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
100 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
102 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
103 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
104 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
108 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
114 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
121 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
124 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
128 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
132 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
133 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
135 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
136 file support. Closes: #494914
137 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
141 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
144 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
145 parameters. Closes: #527256
146 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
147 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
148 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
152 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
156 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
157 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
158 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
162 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
165 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
166 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
167 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
171 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
174 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
175 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
177 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
178 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
179 by triggers). Closes: #521181
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
183 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
187 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
191 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
194 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
195 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
196 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
197 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
202 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
208 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
211 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
212 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
213 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
214 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
215 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
217 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
218 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
219 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
220 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
221 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
222 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
226 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
229 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
230 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
231 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
232 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
233 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
235 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
239 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
241 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
245 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
247 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
248 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
249 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
250 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
251 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
252 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
253 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
254 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
255 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
256 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
257 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
261 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
263 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
264 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
266 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
267 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
268 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
269 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
271 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
272 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
276 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
278 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
279 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
280 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
281 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
282 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
283 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
284 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
286 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
287 that uses them. Affected options are:
288 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
289 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
290 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
291 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
292 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
293 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
294 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
295 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
296 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
297 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
298 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
299 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
303 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
310 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
316 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
318 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
319 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
321 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
322 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
323 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
324 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
325 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
327 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
329 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
330 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
331 rules (see bug #509756).
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
335 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
341 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
342 * Typo. Closes: #493062
343 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
344 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
348 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
351 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
352 empty files. Closes: #490937
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
356 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
362 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
369 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
372 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
373 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
374 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
375 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
380 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
382 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
383 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
384 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
385 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
389 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
392 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
393 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
394 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
395 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
396 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
400 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
407 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
409 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
410 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
411 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
412 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
413 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
414 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
415 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
416 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
417 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
418 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
422 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
425 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
426 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
427 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
428 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
430 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
431 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
432 breaking backwards compatability.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
436 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
439 message in perl 5.10.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
443 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
449 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Convert copyright file to new format.
452 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
456 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
459 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
463 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
466 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
467 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
468 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
469 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
470 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
471 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
472 logging by dh_listpackages.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
476 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
479 run and there are no packages of that type.
480 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
481 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
482 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
483 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
485 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
486 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
490 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
492 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
493 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
494 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
498 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
501 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
502 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
504 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
505 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
506 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
507 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
508 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
509 planned but not yet implemented.)
510 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
511 if the Makefile has such a target.
512 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
513 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
514 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
515 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
516 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
517 but not yet implemented.)
518 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
519 recommended default, especially when using dh.
520 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
521 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
522 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
524 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
526 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
527 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
529 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
530 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
531 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
536 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
539 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
540 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
544 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
546 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
547 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
548 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
552 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
558 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
564 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
567 just those installed by the program.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
571 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
574 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
575 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
579 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
582 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
583 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
584 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
585 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
589 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
592 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
593 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
597 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
600 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
601 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
605 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
608 with policy. Closes: #461392
609 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
610 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
611 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
612 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
613 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
617 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
620 Closes: #460340, #460351
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
624 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
627 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
628 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
629 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
630 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
634 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
637 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
638 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
639 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
640 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
641 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
642 package build directory won't work.
643 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
644 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
645 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
646 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
647 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
648 mode. Closes: #459426
649 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
654 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
657 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
661 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
665 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
666 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
667 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
668 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
669 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
670 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
674 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
677 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
678 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
679 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
680 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
684 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
687 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
688 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
689 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
690 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
691 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
695 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
698 debian/package.triggers files.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
702 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
705 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
709 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
712 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
713 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
714 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
715 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
720 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
723 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
727 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
730 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
731 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
733 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
738 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
742 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
743 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
744 * Typo. Closes: #441272
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
748 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
755 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
762 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
765 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
767 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
768 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
769 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
771 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
772 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
773 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
777 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
780 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
781 * Update urls to web page.
782 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
784 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
785 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
789 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
792 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
793 - typo in alternatives call
794 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
796 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
797 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
801 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
804 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
809 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
815 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
821 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
824 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
826 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
827 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
828 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
829 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
830 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
831 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
832 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
833 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
834 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
835 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
836 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
840 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
843 package install. Closes: #415717
844 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
845 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
846 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
847 script and then remove the python files.
848 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
849 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
850 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
851 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
852 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
853 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
854 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
855 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
856 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
857 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
858 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
859 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
860 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
864 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Correct typo in french translation
870 * Typo. Closes: #400571
871 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
873 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
875 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
876 Closes: #406921, #381940
877 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
879 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
880 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
881 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
882 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
883 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
884 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
885 specified). Closes: #381851
886 * Misc minor changes.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
890 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
897 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
898 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
902 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
908 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
909 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
912 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
913 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
915 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
916 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
917 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
918 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
922 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
925 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
928 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
932 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
938 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
944 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
945 a difficult situation.
946 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
947 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
948 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
949 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
950 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
951 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
952 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
953 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
954 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
955 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
959 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Non-maintainer upload.
962 * Update of dh_python
963 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
964 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
966 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
967 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
968 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
969 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
970 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
972 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
974 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Non-maintainer upload.
977 * Update of dh_python
978 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
979 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
980 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
981 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
982 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
983 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
984 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
985 specific python version. Closes: #373853
986 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
987 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
989 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
990 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
991 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
992 the not too-distant future).
993 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
994 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
995 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
996 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
997 thus made the build fail.
999 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1001 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Non-maintainer upload.
1004 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1006 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1008 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1011 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1012 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1013 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1014 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1015 package. Closes: #301424
1016 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1017 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1018 fonts). Closes: #372686
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1022 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1028 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1029 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1030 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1031 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1032 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1033 above, but already depends on that.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1037 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1040 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1041 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1042 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1043 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1044 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1048 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1054 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1060 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1061 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1065 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1068 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1072 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1076 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1077 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1078 new version (0.24.1).
1079 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1080 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1083 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1084 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1085 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1086 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1087 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1088 new directory on their own.
1089 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1090 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1094 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1097 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1098 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1099 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1100 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1104 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1107 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1108 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1109 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1110 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1111 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1115 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1121 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1125 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1126 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1130 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1131 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1135 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1137 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1138 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1140 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1141 ignored. Closes: #337664
1143 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1148 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1154 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1159 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1160 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1161 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1162 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1163 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1164 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1165 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1169 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1172 version. Closes: #350607
1173 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1174 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1175 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1176 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1180 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1183 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1184 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1185 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1189 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1196 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1202 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1205 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1209 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1212 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1213 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1214 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1215 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1216 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1217 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1221 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1224 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1225 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1230 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1233 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1237 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1240 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1244 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1247 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1248 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1249 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1250 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1251 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1252 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1256 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1260 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1261 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1262 link. Closes: #346405
1263 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1265 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1266 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1267 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1268 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1269 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1270 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1271 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1275 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1282 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1288 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1291 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1295 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1298 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1303 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1307 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1308 installed. Closes: #342033
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1312 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1315 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1316 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1317 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1322 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1328 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1334 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1338 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1339 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1340 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1344 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1347 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1352 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1359 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1365 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1368 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1369 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1370 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1371 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1372 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1373 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1374 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1376 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1380 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1383 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1384 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1388 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1391 in standard man dirs.
1392 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1405 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1417 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1424 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1427 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1428 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1435 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1436 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1437 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1439 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1441 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1447 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1453 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1456 mode. Closes: #324161
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1460 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1463 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1464 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1465 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1466 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1471 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1474 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1475 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1476 is necesary for sanity.
1477 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1478 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1485 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1486 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1490 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1493 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1506 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1507 released, so use at your own risk.
1508 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1509 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1511 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1512 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1513 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1514 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1515 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1516 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1517 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1518 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1519 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1520 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1521 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1522 including twice per config file line now..
1523 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1524 and simplfy the rules file.
1525 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1526 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1527 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1529 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1530 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1537 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1544 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1551 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1555 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1558 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1559 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1560 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1561 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1562 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1563 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1567 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1570 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1571 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1572 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1577 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1580 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1581 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1586 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1589 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1590 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1591 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1596 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1599 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1600 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1601 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1605 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1611 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1618 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1621 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1622 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1623 unknown. Closes: #282924
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1627 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1634 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Spanish man page updates.
1637 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1642 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1651 * dh_desktop: reindent
1652 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1653 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1657 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1663 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1665 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1671 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1675 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1678 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1679 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1683 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1689 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1695 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1705 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1712 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1713 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1714 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1715 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1716 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1717 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1719 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1720 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1721 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1722 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1723 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1724 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1725 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1726 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1727 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1728 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1729 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1730 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1731 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1732 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1733 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1734 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1738 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1745 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1748 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1752 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1755 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1759 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1762 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1769 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1773 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1779 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1785 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1794 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1795 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1796 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1800 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1803 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1807 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1810 but occasionally right and necessary.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1814 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1817 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1818 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1819 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1820 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1821 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1825 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1828 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1830 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1831 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1832 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1833 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1834 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1835 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1836 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1837 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1838 postinst scripts for udebs.
1839 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1843 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1846 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1848 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1849 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1866 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1873 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1876 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1880 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1883 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1887 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1890 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1893 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1894 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1898 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1904 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1907 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1911 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1914 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1915 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1916 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1918 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1920 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1921 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1922 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1926 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1929 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1934 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1937 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1938 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1939 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1944 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1950 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1956 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1959 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1960 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1961 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1962 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1963 associated -dbg packages.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1970 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1977 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1984 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1991 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1999 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2006 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2014 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2022 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2023 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2024 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2025 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2026 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2027 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2028 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2029 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2030 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2031 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2038 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2046 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2047 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2054 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2055 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2060 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2063 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2070 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2074 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2077 out section number. Closes: #204731
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2103 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2104 removal. Closes: #204286
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2111 renaming. Closes: #203548
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2118 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2119 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2135 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2141 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2144 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2145 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2146 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2153 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2154 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2164 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2174 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2182 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2189 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2191 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2192 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2199 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2207 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2219 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2226 it break hard links (see #188663).
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2233 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2237 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2247 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2248 debconf-mergetemplates
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2252 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2255 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2262 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2269 * Update debhelper(1).
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2273 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2276 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2277 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2278 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2279 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2280 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2287 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2288 the shell. Closes: #178524
2289 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2293 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2296 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2303 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2307 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2310 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2311 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2312 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2313 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2318 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2321 files from installation.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2328 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2329 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2333 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2336 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2340 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2343 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2347 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2353 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2363 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2364 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2366 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2370 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2373 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2374 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2375 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2376 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2380 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2383 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2387 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2390 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2391 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2395 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2399 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2414 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2415 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2416 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2424 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2425 practice. Closes: #163303
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2445 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2447 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2448 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2449 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2450 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2451 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2458 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2479 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2512 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2513 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2514 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2515 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2536 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2537 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2544 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2545 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2546 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2547 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2548 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2555 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2557 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2565 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2569 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2572 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2573 right thing. Closes: #150644
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Stupid, evil typo.
2580 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2594 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2595 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2609 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2616 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2617 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2625 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2638 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2639 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Removing perl warning message.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2658 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2659 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2660 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2661 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2662 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2663 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2664 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2665 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2685 debconf-mergetemplate.
2686 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2687 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2691 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2694 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2695 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2696 dh_install, which ...
2697 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2698 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2699 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2700 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2701 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2702 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2703 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2704 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2705 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2706 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2707 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2708 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2709 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2710 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2711 other minor changes.
2712 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2713 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2714 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2715 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2716 course there's -X ..)
2717 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2718 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2719 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2721 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2722 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2723 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2724 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2725 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2730 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2736 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2739 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2743 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2749 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2755 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2761 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2767 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2770 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2771 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2772 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2773 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2775 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2776 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2780 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2786 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2789 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2793 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2796 upset. Closes: #131322
2798 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2800 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2803 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2804 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2805 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2806 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2807 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2808 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2809 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2810 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2811 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2812 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2813 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2814 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2815 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2816 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2817 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2819 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2823 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2826 - Better indenting of generated code.
2827 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2831 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2835 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2836 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2837 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2838 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2839 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2840 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2841 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2845 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2848 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2852 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2855 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2856 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2857 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2858 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2859 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2860 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2861 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2862 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2863 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2864 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2865 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2866 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2867 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2868 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2869 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2874 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2880 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2883 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2884 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2888 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2891 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2892 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2896 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2902 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2905 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2906 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2907 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2908 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2909 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2914 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2920 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2923 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2927 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2930 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2935 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2941 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2944 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2948 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2954 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2958 Also some indentation fixes.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2962 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2965 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2966 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2967 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2968 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2969 Closes: #106514, #85520
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2973 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2979 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2985 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2991 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2997 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3003 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3006 change it in debhelper v4..
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3010 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3016 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3019 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3023 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3026 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3030 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3036 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3039 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3040 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3041 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3042 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3043 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3044 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3045 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3046 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3047 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3048 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3049 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3050 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3054 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3057 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3061 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3068 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3071 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3072 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3073 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3074 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3075 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3076 program those options go to. So, for example,
3077 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3078 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3079 something complex. Closes: #89311
3080 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3084 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3087 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3088 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3089 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3093 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3096 through loop. Closes: #98598
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3100 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Missing semi-colon.
3103 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3104 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3108 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3111 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3112 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3113 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3117 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3120 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3121 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3125 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3128 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3132 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3135 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3136 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3140 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3143 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3144 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3145 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3149 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3152 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3153 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3154 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3158 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3161 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3165 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3171 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3177 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3183 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3189 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3192 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3196 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3199 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3200 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3201 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3202 followed. Closes: #85483
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3206 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3208 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3209 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3210 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3214 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3217 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3218 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3219 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3220 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3221 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3222 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3223 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3224 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3225 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3226 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3227 Closes: #88464, #77743
3228 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3229 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3230 us to deal with that gracefully.
3231 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3233 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3234 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3235 a while, Closes: #51225
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3239 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3245 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3248 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3252 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3256 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3261 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3264 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3265 don't make packlist files.
3266 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3267 debhelper coding standards.
3268 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3269 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3273 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3276 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3280 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3283 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3284 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3285 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3286 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3287 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3288 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3289 but is mildly deprecated.
3290 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3291 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3292 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3293 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3294 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3295 switching to statoverrides..
3296 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3297 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3298 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3299 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3300 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3301 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3303 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3304 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3305 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3306 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3307 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3308 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3309 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3310 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3311 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3313 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3314 variable names, pod man pages).
3315 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3316 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3317 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3318 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3319 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3320 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3321 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3338 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3341 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3345 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3347 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3348 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3349 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3353 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3355 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3356 they were previously ignored.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3360 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3362 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3363 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3367 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3369 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3370 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3371 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3377 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3381 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3383 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3384 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3390 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3391 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3392 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3393 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3394 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3395 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3396 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3397 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3398 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3399 it is an obsolete program.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3403 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3405 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3409 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3413 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3415 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3419 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3423 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3425 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3429 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3435 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * typo: Closes, #78567
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3441 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3447 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3456 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3457 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3458 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3459 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3460 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3464 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3467 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3472 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3475 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3476 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3477 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3478 backwards-compatability.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3482 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3485 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3486 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3487 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3488 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3489 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3490 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3492 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3493 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3494 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3496 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3498 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3499 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3500 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3501 should now be raised to severity important..
3502 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3503 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3507 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3510 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3521 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3527 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3540 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3543 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3544 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3545 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3546 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3550 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3556 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3559 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3560 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3561 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3562 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3563 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3564 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3569 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3572 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3576 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3582 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3585 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3590 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3593 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3594 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3595 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3596 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3600 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3604 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3607 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3610 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3611 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3614 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3616 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3617 the TODO entry about it.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3621 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3628 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3631 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3632 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3636 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3639 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3640 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3641 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3642 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3652 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3659 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3662 (this appears to be logal).
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3666 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3669 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3670 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3671 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3672 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3685 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3686 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3687 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3688 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3692 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3701 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3715 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3716 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3717 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3722 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3729 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3738 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3739 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3740 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3741 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3742 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3743 notice until v2 is complete.
3744 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3745 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3746 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3747 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3748 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3749 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3751 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3752 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3753 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3754 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3758 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3771 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3774 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3778 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3785 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3788 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3789 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3790 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3791 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3796 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3799 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3800 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3801 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3806 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3809 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3810 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3814 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3817 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3821 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3824 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3828 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3835 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3838 depend on the build and install targets.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3842 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3845 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3849 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3856 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3871 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3872 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3873 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3874 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3875 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3876 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3878 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3879 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3880 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3881 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3882 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3883 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3884 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3900 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3903 right place. Closes: #55065
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3907 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3917 * Copyright date updates.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3924 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3929 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3942 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3963 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3964 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3965 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3966 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3967 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3968 bits until all files have been registered.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_installmanpages:
3975 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3976 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3977 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3978 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3979 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3980 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3981 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3982 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3983 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3984 otherwise change the result at all.
3986 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3987 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3988 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3989 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3990 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4004 act on files that don't exist.
4005 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4006 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4007 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4009 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4010 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4011 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4012 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4031 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4035 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4038 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4040 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4041 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4042 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4046 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4049 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4050 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4051 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4052 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4053 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4054 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4055 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4057 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4059 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4070 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4082 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4085 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4089 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4104 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4105 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4106 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4107 I made some changes, though:
4108 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4109 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4110 that is a clear violation of policy.
4111 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4112 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4113 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4114 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4115 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4116 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4117 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4118 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4119 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4121 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4134 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4138 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4141 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4142 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4163 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4164 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4165 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4166 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4167 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4168 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4169 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4183 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4184 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4197 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4204 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4205 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4211 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4220 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4227 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4228 for the dependancies to be generated.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4235 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4242 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4243 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4244 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4252 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4253 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4257 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4272 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4285 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4286 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4287 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4288 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4289 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4290 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4291 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4292 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4293 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4294 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4295 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4296 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4303 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4304 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4306 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4307 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4308 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4309 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4310 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4311 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4313 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4314 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4318 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4321 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4335 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4343 for building debhelper.
4344 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4355 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4358 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4365 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4366 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4367 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4368 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4369 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4370 it's always available.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4377 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4378 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4379 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4386 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4387 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4400 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4413 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4414 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4415 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4419 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4422 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4427 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4430 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4431 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4433 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4434 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4453 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4457 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4460 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4461 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4463 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4467 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4470 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4471 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4472 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4479 things if CDPATH is set.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4492 seems to make sense for the transition.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4499 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4507 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4508 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4512 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4515 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4522 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4523 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4524 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4525 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4538 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4539 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4540 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4541 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4542 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4543 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4544 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4545 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4546 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4547 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4552 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4555 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4556 * README: mention doc/v2
4557 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4558 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4562 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4564 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4565 be using this script RSN.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4572 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4573 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4574 more than 1 init script.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4578 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4581 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4585 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * Changed perl version detection.
4588 * Changed call to find.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4592 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4595 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4597 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4602 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Really include dh_installpam.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4608 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4611 * Wrote man page for same.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4615 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4618 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4619 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4624 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4631 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4634 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4635 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4636 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4637 x bit was being set!
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4641 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4644 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4645 well. (Closes: 38900)
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4649 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4652 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4653 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4657 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4663 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4670 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4679 help from Julian Gilbey.
4680 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4681 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4682 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4683 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4684 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4685 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4686 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4691 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4697 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4704 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4710 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4719 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4723 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4726 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4730 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4733 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4737 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4743 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4746 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4750 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4756 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4762 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4765 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4766 may be deleted. (#35845)
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4770 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * Various man page enhancements.
4773 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4778 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4781 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4782 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4786 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4789 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4790 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4791 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4793 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4794 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4799 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4805 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Another very minor typo fix.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4811 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Very minor typo fix.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4820 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4821 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4825 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4834 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4835 variables properly (#34850).
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4839 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4845 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4848 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4849 (automatically generated by build process).
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4853 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4855 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4859 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4862 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4863 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4865 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4869 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4872 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * README: minor typo fix.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4882 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4885 leave it at that. :-)
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4901 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4904 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4905 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4906 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4910 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4913 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4917 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4920 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4924 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4927 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4928 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4929 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4930 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4934 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4937 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4938 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4939 Craig Small for spotting this.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4943 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4946 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4947 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4957 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4960 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4964 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4966 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4967 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4968 working on the last version of debhelper.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4972 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4975 being made. (#23255)
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4979 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4988 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4992 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4995 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4996 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4997 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4998 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5005 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5006 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5007 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5008 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5010 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5011 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5013 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5018 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5024 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5033 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5034 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5035 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5036 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5037 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5038 suidregister actually supports it.
5039 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5040 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5044 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5051 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5054 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5055 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5056 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5057 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5058 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5059 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5060 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5064 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5066 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5067 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5071 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5074 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5075 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5076 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5077 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5081 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5084 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5086 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5087 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5088 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5089 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5090 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5091 effect, either. (#30118)
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5095 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5101 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5104 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5105 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5115 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5118 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5119 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5120 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5121 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5125 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5128 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5129 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5133 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5139 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5142 packages, painlessly.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5146 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5152 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5158 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5164 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * The perl conversion is complete.
5168 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5170 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5171 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5172 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5180 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5181 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5182 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5189 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5191 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5193 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5194 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5198 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5201 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5202 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5206 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5215 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5216 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5217 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5218 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5219 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5223 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5226 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5227 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5228 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5229 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5233 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5236 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5243 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5244 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5245 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5246 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5247 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5248 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5249 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5250 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5254 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5263 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5264 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5265 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5273 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5280 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5284 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5287 sections of shared libraries.
5288 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5289 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5290 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5291 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5292 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5293 things you don't want them to.
5294 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5295 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5302 shared libraries. (#26414)
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5306 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5308 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5309 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5310 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5311 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5315 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5319 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5321 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5322 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5323 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5324 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5325 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5332 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5336 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5339 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5340 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5345 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5348 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5352 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5355 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5356 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5357 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5358 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5359 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5361 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5362 remove debian/files properly.
5363 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5364 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5365 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5366 * Removed bogus menu file.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5373 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5377 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5380 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5381 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5382 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5383 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5384 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5385 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5392 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5393 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5394 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5395 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5399 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5406 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5409 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5410 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5412 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5413 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5414 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5415 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5416 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5417 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5421 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5424 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5425 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5426 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5427 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5428 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5429 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5430 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5431 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5432 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5433 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5434 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5435 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5436 passed any switches.
5437 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5441 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5444 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5445 at all for a long while.
5446 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5447 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5448 large chunks in the process.
5449 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5450 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5451 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5456 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5459 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5461 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5466 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5469 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5470 that don't always have the same files in them.
5471 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5472 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5473 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5477 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5481 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5482 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5483 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5484 updating 27 man pages.
5485 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5486 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5487 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5488 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5489 programs act on. (#25247)
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5493 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5497 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5498 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5499 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5500 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5501 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5502 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5507 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5514 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5521 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5524 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5528 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5534 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5537 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5538 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5539 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5540 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5541 package by accident.
5542 * Is version 1.0 next?
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5546 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5549 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5550 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5554 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5557 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5558 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5559 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5560 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5561 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5563 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5568 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5571 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5572 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5576 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5579 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5583 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5586 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5587 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5592 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5598 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5601 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5602 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5607 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5613 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5616 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5617 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5618 past week. Thanks, guys!
5620 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5621 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5622 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5623 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5624 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5625 would do in the same situation.
5626 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5627 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5629 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5631 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5632 permissions changed.
5633 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5634 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5635 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5636 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5637 files are treated identically.
5638 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5639 * Minor man page fixes.
5640 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5641 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5642 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5646 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5649 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5650 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5651 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5652 use -X multiple times, too.
5653 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5654 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5658 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5661 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5662 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5666 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5669 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5673 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5676 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5677 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5678 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5679 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5680 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5681 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5682 shape if you're starting a new package.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5686 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5689 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5693 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5696 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5697 because of missing symlinks.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5701 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5707 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5710 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5711 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5712 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5713 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5714 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5716 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5717 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5721 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5723 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5724 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5725 to be changed after the fact :-)
5726 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5730 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5732 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5733 no version string after the -V.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5737 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5739 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5740 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5745 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5748 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5752 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5755 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5756 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5757 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5758 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5759 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5760 I always welcome corrections!
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5764 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5770 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5773 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5774 * Documented this new switch.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5778 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5781 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5782 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5783 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5784 no packages use the old behavior.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5788 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5791 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5792 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5796 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5799 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5803 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5809 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5812 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5816 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5819 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5820 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5821 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5825 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5831 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5834 into the source package by accident.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5838 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5841 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5842 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5843 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5844 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5845 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5846 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5851 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5855 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5856 inspired to implement some of it.
5857 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5861 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5864 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5868 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5871 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5872 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5876 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5879 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5880 have done.) (#17598)
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5884 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5890 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5899 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5903 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5906 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5907 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5911 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5914 argument processor in perl.
5915 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5916 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5917 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5918 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5922 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5925 type directories. (#16933)
5926 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5927 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5928 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5929 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5930 are supported. (#16935)
5931 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5936 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5939 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5943 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5947 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5948 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5949 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5950 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5951 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5952 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5956 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5959 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5960 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5962 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5963 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5964 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5965 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5966 a given package, or -i or -a.
5967 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5968 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5969 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5970 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5971 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5972 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5973 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5974 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5975 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5977 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5978 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5979 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5983 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5986 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5987 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5992 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5995 does not have a section.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5999 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6002 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6003 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6004 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6008 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * Fixed typo #16215.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6014 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6017 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6018 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6019 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6020 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6021 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6026 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6029 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6030 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6031 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6036 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6042 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6048 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6051 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6052 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6053 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6054 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6055 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6056 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6060 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6066 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6069 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6073 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6076 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6077 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6078 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6082 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6085 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6089 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6095 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6098 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6102 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6105 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6109 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6115 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6118 postinst, postrm, etc.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6122 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6128 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6131 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6132 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6133 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6134 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6135 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6139 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6142 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6143 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6147 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6150 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6154 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6157 installing package files into.
6158 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6163 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6167 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6171 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6177 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6180 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6184 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6187 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6188 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6189 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6190 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6194 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6196 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6197 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6198 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6199 multiple binary packages.
6200 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6201 should rebuild them with this version.
6202 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6206 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6209 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6213 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6216 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6220 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6223 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6224 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6225 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6226 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6227 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6228 debian/README.debian.
6229 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6230 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6231 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6232 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6233 in a few situations.)
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6237 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6243 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6249 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6252 * Fixed several man pages.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6256 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6259 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6260 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6264 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6267 is ready for general use.
6268 * Added man pages for all commands.
6269 * Multiple binary package support.
6270 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6271 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6272 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6274 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6275 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6276 auto-installed as parameters.
6277 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6279 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6282 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6283 the package build directory it is to act on.
6284 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6285 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6286 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6290 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6292 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6293 ready to replace debstd.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400