1 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
4 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
5 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
6 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
7 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
8 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
9 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
13 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
16 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
17 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
18 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
20 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
23 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
24 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
25 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
26 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
27 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
28 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
32 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
39 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
41 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
45 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
48 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
52 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
55 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
60 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
64 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
65 installed. Closes: #342033
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
69 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
72 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
73 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
74 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
79 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
85 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
91 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
95 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
96 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
97 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
101 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
104 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
109 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
116 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
122 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
124 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
125 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
126 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
127 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
128 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
129 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
130 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
131 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
133 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
137 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
140 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
141 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
145 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
148 in standard man dirs.
149 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
153 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
159 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
162 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
167 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
174 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
181 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
184 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
185 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
189 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
191 * NMU with maintainer approval.
192 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
193 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
194 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
196 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
198 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
204 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
210 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
213 mode. Closes: #324161
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
217 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
220 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
221 behavior change. Closes: #249815
222 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
223 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
228 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
231 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
232 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
233 is necesary for sanity.
234 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
235 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
240 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
242 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
243 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
247 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
250 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
254 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
260 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
263 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
264 released, so use at your own risk.
265 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
266 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
268 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
269 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
270 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
271 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
272 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
273 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
274 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
275 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
276 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
277 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
278 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
279 including twice per config file line now..
280 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
281 and simplfy the rules file.
282 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
283 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
284 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
286 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
287 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
291 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
294 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
298 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
301 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
305 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
307 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
308 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
312 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
315 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
316 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
317 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
318 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
319 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
320 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
324 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
327 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
328 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
329 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
334 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
337 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
338 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
343 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
346 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
347 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
348 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
353 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
356 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
357 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
358 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
362 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
368 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
375 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
378 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
379 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
380 unknown. Closes: #282924
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
384 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
391 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Spanish man page updates.
394 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
399 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
405 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
408 * dh_desktop: reindent
409 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
410 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
414 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
420 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
422 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
426 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
428 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
432 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
435 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
436 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
440 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
446 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
452 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
459 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
462 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
466 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
469 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
470 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
471 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
472 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
473 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
474 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
476 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
477 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
478 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
479 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
480 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
481 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
482 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
483 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
484 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
485 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
486 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
487 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
488 in the others, and added a few new tests.
489 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
490 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
491 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
495 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
502 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
505 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
509 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
512 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
516 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
519 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
523 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
526 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
530 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
536 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
542 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
548 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
551 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
552 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
553 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
557 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
560 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
564 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
567 but occasionally right and necessary.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
571 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
574 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
575 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
576 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
577 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
578 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
582 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
585 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
587 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
588 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
589 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
590 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
591 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
592 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
593 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
594 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
595 postinst scripts for udebs.
596 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
600 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
603 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
605 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
606 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
610 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
616 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
623 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
630 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
633 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
637 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
640 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
644 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
647 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
650 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
651 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
655 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
661 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
664 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
668 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
671 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
672 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
673 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
675 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
677 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
678 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
679 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
683 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
686 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
691 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
694 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
695 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
696 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
701 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
707 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
713 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
716 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
717 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
718 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
719 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
720 associated -dbg packages.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
724 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
727 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
731 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
734 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
738 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
741 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
745 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
748 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
753 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Typo. Closes: #207999
756 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
760 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
763 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
768 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
771 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
775 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
779 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
780 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
781 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
782 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
783 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
784 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
785 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
786 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
787 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
788 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
792 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
795 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
800 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
803 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
804 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
808 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
811 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
812 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
817 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
820 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
824 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
827 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
831 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
834 out section number. Closes: #204731
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
838 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
845 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
851 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
857 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Typo, Closes: #203907
860 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
861 removal. Closes: #204286
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
865 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
868 renaming. Closes: #203548
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
872 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
875 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
876 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
880 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
886 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
892 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
898 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
901 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
902 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
903 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
907 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
910 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
911 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
915 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
921 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
928 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
931 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
936 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
939 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
943 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
946 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
948 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
949 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
953 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
956 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
961 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
964 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
968 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
974 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
976 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
980 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
983 it break hard links (see #188663).
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
987 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
990 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
994 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1000 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1004 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1005 debconf-mergetemplates
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1009 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1012 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1016 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1019 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1023 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1026 * Update debhelper(1).
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1030 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1033 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1034 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1035 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1036 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1037 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1041 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1044 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1045 the shell. Closes: #178524
1046 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1050 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1053 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1057 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1060 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1064 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1067 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1068 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1069 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1070 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1075 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1078 files from installation.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1082 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1085 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1086 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1090 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1093 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1097 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1100 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1104 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1110 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1116 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1120 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1121 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1123 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1127 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1130 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1131 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1132 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1133 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1137 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1140 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1144 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1147 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1148 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1152 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1156 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1161 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1167 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1171 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1172 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1173 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1178 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1181 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1182 practice. Closes: #163303
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1186 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1192 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1199 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1202 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1204 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1205 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1206 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1207 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1208 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1212 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1215 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1226 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1236 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1241 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1247 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1253 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1259 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1269 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1270 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1271 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1272 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1277 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1293 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1294 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1298 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1301 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1302 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1303 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1304 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1305 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1309 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1312 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1314 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1319 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1322 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1326 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1329 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1330 right thing. Closes: #150644
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1334 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Stupid, evil typo.
1337 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1341 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1348 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1351 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1352 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1357 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1363 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1366 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1370 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1373 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1374 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1379 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1382 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1386 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1392 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1395 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1396 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1406 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Removing perl warning message.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1412 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1415 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1416 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1417 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1418 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1419 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1420 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1421 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1422 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1426 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1439 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1442 debconf-mergetemplate.
1443 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1444 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1451 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1452 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1453 dh_install, which ...
1454 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1455 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1456 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1457 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1458 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1459 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1460 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1461 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1462 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1463 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1464 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1465 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1466 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1467 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1468 other minor changes.
1469 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1470 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1471 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1472 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1473 course there's -X ..)
1474 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1475 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1476 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1478 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1479 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1480 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1481 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1482 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1487 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1493 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1496 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1500 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1506 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1512 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1518 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1524 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1527 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1528 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1529 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1530 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1532 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1533 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1537 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1543 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1546 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1550 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1553 upset. Closes: #131322
1555 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1557 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1560 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1561 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1562 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1563 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1564 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1565 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1566 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1567 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1568 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1569 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1570 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1571 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1572 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1573 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1574 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1576 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1580 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1583 - Better indenting of generated code.
1584 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1588 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1592 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1593 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1594 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1595 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1596 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1597 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1598 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1602 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1605 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1609 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1612 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1613 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1614 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1615 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1616 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1617 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1618 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1619 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1620 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1621 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1622 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1623 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1624 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1625 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1626 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1631 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1637 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1640 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1641 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1645 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1648 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1649 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1653 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1659 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1662 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1663 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1664 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1665 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1666 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1671 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1677 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1680 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1684 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1687 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1692 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1698 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1701 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1705 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1711 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1715 Also some indentation fixes.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1719 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1722 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1723 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1724 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1725 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1726 Closes: #106514, #85520
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1730 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1736 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1742 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1748 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1754 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1760 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1763 change it in debhelper v4..
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1767 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1773 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1776 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1780 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1783 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1787 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1793 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1796 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1797 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1798 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1799 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1800 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1801 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1802 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1803 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1804 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1805 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1806 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1807 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1811 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1814 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1818 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1825 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1828 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1829 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1830 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1831 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1832 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1833 program those options go to. So, for example,
1834 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1835 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1836 something complex. Closes: #89311
1837 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1841 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1844 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1845 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1846 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1850 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1853 through loop. Closes: #98598
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1857 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Missing semi-colon.
1860 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1861 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1865 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1868 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1869 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1870 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1874 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1877 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1878 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1882 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1885 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1889 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1892 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1893 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1897 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1900 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1901 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1902 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1906 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1909 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1910 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1911 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1915 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1918 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1922 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1928 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1934 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1940 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1946 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1949 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1953 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1956 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1957 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1958 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1959 followed. Closes: #85483
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1963 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1965 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1966 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1967 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1971 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1974 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1975 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1976 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1977 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1978 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1979 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1980 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1981 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1982 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1983 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1984 Closes: #88464, #77743
1985 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1986 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1987 us to deal with that gracefully.
1988 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1990 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1991 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1992 a while, Closes: #51225
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1996 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2002 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2005 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2009 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2013 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2018 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2021 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2022 don't make packlist files.
2023 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2024 debhelper coding standards.
2025 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2026 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2030 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2033 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2037 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2040 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2041 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2042 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2043 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2044 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2045 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2046 but is mildly deprecated.
2047 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2048 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2049 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2050 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2051 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2052 switching to statoverrides..
2053 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2054 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2055 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2056 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2057 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2058 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2060 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2061 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2062 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2063 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2064 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2065 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2066 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2067 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2068 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2070 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2071 variable names, pod man pages).
2072 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2073 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2074 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2075 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2076 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2077 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2078 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2082 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2088 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2095 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2098 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2102 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2104 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2105 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2106 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2110 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2112 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2113 they were previously ignored.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2117 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2119 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2120 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2124 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2126 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2127 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2128 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2132 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2134 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2138 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2140 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2141 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2145 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2147 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2148 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2149 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2150 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2151 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2152 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2153 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2154 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2155 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2156 it is an obsolete program.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2160 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2162 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2166 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2170 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2172 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2176 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2178 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2180 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2182 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2186 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2192 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * typo: Closes, #78567
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2198 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2204 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2210 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2213 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2214 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2215 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2216 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2217 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2221 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2224 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2229 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2232 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2233 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2234 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2235 backwards-compatability.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2239 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2242 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2243 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2244 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2245 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2246 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2247 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2249 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2250 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2251 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2253 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2255 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2256 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2257 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2258 should now be raised to severity important..
2259 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2260 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2264 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2267 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2272 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2278 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2284 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2290 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2297 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2300 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2301 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2302 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2303 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2307 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2313 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2316 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2317 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2318 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2319 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2320 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2321 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2326 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2329 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2333 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2339 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2342 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2347 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2350 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2351 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2352 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2353 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2357 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2361 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2364 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2367 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2368 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2371 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2373 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2374 the TODO entry about it.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2378 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2385 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2388 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2389 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2393 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2396 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2397 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2398 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2399 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2403 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2409 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2416 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2419 (this appears to be logal).
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2423 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2426 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2427 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2428 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2429 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2433 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2439 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2442 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2443 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2444 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2445 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2449 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2455 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2458 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2462 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2469 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2472 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2473 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2474 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2479 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2486 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2492 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2495 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2496 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2497 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2498 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2499 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2500 notice until v2 is complete.
2501 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2502 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2503 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2504 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2505 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2506 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2508 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2509 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2510 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2511 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2515 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2521 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2528 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2531 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2535 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2542 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2545 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2546 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2547 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2548 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2553 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2556 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2557 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2558 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2563 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2566 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2567 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2571 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2574 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2578 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2581 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2585 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2595 depend on the build and install targets.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2599 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2602 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2606 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2613 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2619 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2625 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2628 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2629 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2630 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2631 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2632 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2633 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2635 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2636 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2637 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2638 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2639 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2640 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2641 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2645 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2651 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2657 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2660 right place. Closes: #55065
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2664 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2671 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2674 * Copyright date updates.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2678 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2681 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2686 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2692 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2699 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2705 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2711 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2717 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2720 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2721 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2722 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2723 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2724 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2725 bits until all files have been registered.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2729 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installmanpages:
2732 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2733 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2734 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2735 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2736 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2737 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2738 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2739 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2740 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2741 otherwise change the result at all.
2743 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2744 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2745 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2746 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2747 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2752 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2758 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2761 act on files that don't exist.
2762 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2763 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2764 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2766 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2767 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2768 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2769 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2773 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2779 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2785 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2788 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2792 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2795 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2797 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2798 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2799 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2803 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2806 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2807 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2808 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2809 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2810 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2811 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2812 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2814 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2816 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2820 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2827 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2833 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2839 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2842 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2846 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2852 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2858 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2861 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2862 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2863 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2864 I made some changes, though:
2865 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2866 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2867 that is a clear violation of policy.
2868 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2869 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2870 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2871 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2872 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2873 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2874 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2875 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2876 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2878 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2882 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2888 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2891 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2895 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2898 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2899 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2904 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2910 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2917 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2920 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2921 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2922 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2923 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2924 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2925 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2926 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2930 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2936 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2940 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2941 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2945 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2951 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2954 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2958 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2961 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2962 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2966 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2968 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2973 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2977 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2981 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2984 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2985 for the dependancies to be generated.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2989 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2992 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2996 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2999 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3000 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3001 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3006 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3009 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3010 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3014 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3020 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3026 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3029 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3033 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3039 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3042 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3043 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3044 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3045 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3046 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3047 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3048 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3049 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3050 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3051 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3052 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3053 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3057 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3060 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3061 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3063 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3064 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3065 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3066 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3067 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3068 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3070 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3071 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3075 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3078 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3082 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3089 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3092 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3097 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3100 for building debhelper.
3101 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3105 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3112 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3115 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3119 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3122 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3123 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3124 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3125 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3126 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3127 it's always available.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3131 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3134 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3135 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3136 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3140 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3143 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3144 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3154 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3157 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3161 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3167 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3170 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3171 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3172 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3176 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3179 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3184 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3187 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3188 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3190 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3191 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3195 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3201 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3207 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3210 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3214 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3217 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3218 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3220 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3224 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3227 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3228 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3229 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3233 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3236 things if CDPATH is set.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3240 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3246 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3249 seems to make sense for the transition.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3253 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3256 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3261 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3264 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3265 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3269 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3272 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3276 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3279 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3280 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3281 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3282 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3286 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3292 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3295 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3296 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3297 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3298 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3299 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3300 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3301 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3302 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3303 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3304 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3309 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3312 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3313 * README: mention doc/v2
3314 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3315 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3319 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3321 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3322 be using this script RSN.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3326 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3329 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3330 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3331 more than 1 init script.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3335 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3338 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3342 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Changed perl version detection.
3345 * Changed call to find.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3349 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3352 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3354 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3359 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Really include dh_installpam.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3365 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3368 * Wrote man page for same.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3372 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3375 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3376 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3381 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3388 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3391 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3392 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3393 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3394 x bit was being set!
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3398 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3401 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3402 well. (Closes: 38900)
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3406 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3409 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3410 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3414 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3420 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3427 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3433 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3436 help from Julian Gilbey.
3437 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3438 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3439 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3440 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3441 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3442 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3443 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3448 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3454 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3461 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3467 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3473 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3476 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3480 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3483 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3487 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3490 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3494 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3500 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3503 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3507 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3513 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3519 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3522 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3523 may be deleted. (#35845)
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3527 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Various man page enhancements.
3530 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3535 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3538 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3539 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3543 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3546 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3547 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3548 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3550 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3551 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3556 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3562 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Another very minor typo fix.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3568 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Very minor typo fix.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3574 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3577 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3578 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3582 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3588 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3591 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3592 variables properly (#34850).
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3596 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3602 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3605 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3606 (automatically generated by build process).
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3610 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3612 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3616 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3619 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3620 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3622 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3626 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3629 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3633 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * README: minor typo fix.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3639 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3642 leave it at that. :-)
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3646 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3652 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3658 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3661 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3662 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3663 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3667 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3670 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3674 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3677 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3681 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3684 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3685 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3686 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3687 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3691 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3694 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3695 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3696 Craig Small for spotting this.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3700 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3703 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3704 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3708 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3714 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3717 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3721 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3723 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3724 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3725 working on the last version of debhelper.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3729 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3732 being made. (#23255)
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3736 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3742 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3745 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3749 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3752 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3753 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3754 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3755 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3759 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3762 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3763 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3764 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3765 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3767 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3768 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3770 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3775 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3781 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3787 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3790 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3791 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3792 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3793 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3794 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3795 suidregister actually supports it.
3796 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3797 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3801 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3808 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3811 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3812 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3813 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3814 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3815 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3816 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3817 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3821 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3823 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3824 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3828 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3831 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3832 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3833 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3834 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3838 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3841 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3843 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3844 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3845 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3846 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3847 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3848 effect, either. (#30118)
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3852 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3858 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3861 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3862 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3866 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3872 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3875 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3876 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3877 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3878 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3882 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3885 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3886 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3890 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3896 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3899 packages, painlessly.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3903 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3909 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3915 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3921 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * The perl conversion is complete.
3925 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3927 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3928 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3929 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3934 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3937 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3938 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3939 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3943 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3946 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3948 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3950 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3951 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3955 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3958 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3959 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3963 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3969 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3972 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3973 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3974 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3975 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3976 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3980 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3983 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3984 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3985 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3986 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3990 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3993 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3997 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4000 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4001 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4002 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4003 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4004 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4005 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4006 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4007 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4011 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4017 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4020 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4021 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4022 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4027 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4030 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4034 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4037 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4041 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4044 sections of shared libraries.
4045 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4046 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4047 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4048 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4049 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4050 things you don't want them to.
4051 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4052 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4056 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4059 shared libraries. (#26414)
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4063 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4065 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4066 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4067 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4068 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4072 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4076 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4078 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4079 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4080 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4081 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4082 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4086 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4089 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4093 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4096 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4097 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4102 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4105 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4109 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4112 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4113 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4114 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4115 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4116 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4118 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4119 remove debian/files properly.
4120 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4121 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4122 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4123 * Removed bogus menu file.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4127 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4130 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4134 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4137 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4138 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4139 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4140 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4141 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4142 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4146 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4149 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4150 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4151 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4152 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4156 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4163 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4166 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4167 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4169 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4170 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4171 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4172 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4173 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4174 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4178 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4181 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4182 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4183 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4184 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4185 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4186 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4187 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4188 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4189 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4190 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4191 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4192 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4193 passed any switches.
4194 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4198 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4201 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4202 at all for a long while.
4203 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4204 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4205 large chunks in the process.
4206 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4207 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4208 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4213 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4216 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4218 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4223 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4226 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4227 that don't always have the same files in them.
4228 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4229 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4230 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4234 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4238 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4239 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4240 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4241 updating 27 man pages.
4242 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4243 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4244 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4245 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4246 programs act on. (#25247)
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4250 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4254 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4255 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4256 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4257 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4258 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4259 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4264 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4271 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4278 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4281 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4285 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4291 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4294 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4295 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4296 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4297 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4298 package by accident.
4299 * Is version 1.0 next?
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4303 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4306 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4307 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4311 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4314 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4315 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4316 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4317 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4318 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4320 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4325 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4328 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4329 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4333 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4336 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4340 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4343 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4344 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4349 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4355 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4358 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4359 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4364 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4370 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4373 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4374 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4375 past week. Thanks, guys!
4377 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4378 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4379 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4380 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4381 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4382 would do in the same situation.
4383 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4384 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4386 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4388 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4389 permissions changed.
4390 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4391 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4392 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4393 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4394 files are treated identically.
4395 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4396 * Minor man page fixes.
4397 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4398 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4399 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4403 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4406 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4407 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4408 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4409 use -X multiple times, too.
4410 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4411 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4415 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4418 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4419 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4423 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4426 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4430 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4433 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4434 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4435 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4436 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4437 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4438 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4439 shape if you're starting a new package.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4443 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4446 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4450 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4453 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4454 because of missing symlinks.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4458 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4464 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4467 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4468 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4469 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4470 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4471 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4473 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4474 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4478 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4480 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4481 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4482 to be changed after the fact :-)
4483 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4487 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4490 no version string after the -V.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4494 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4496 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4497 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4502 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4505 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4509 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4512 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4513 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4514 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4515 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4516 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4517 I always welcome corrections!
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4521 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4527 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4530 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4531 * Documented this new switch.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4535 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4538 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4539 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4540 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4541 no packages use the old behavior.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4545 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4548 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4549 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4553 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4556 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4560 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4566 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4569 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4573 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4576 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4577 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4578 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4582 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4588 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4591 into the source package by accident.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4595 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4598 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4599 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4600 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4601 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4602 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4603 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4608 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4612 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4613 inspired to implement some of it.
4614 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4618 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4621 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4625 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4628 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4629 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4633 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4636 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4637 have done.) (#17598)
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4641 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4647 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4653 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4656 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4660 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4663 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4664 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4668 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4671 argument processor in perl.
4672 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4673 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4674 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4675 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4679 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4682 type directories. (#16933)
4683 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4684 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4685 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4686 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4687 are supported. (#16935)
4688 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4693 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4696 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4700 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4704 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4705 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4706 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4707 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4708 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4709 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4713 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4716 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4717 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4719 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4720 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4721 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4722 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4723 a given package, or -i or -a.
4724 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4725 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4726 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4727 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4728 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4729 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4730 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4731 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4732 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4734 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4735 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4736 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4740 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4743 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4744 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4749 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4752 does not have a section.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4756 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4759 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4760 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4761 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4765 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * Fixed typo #16215.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4771 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4774 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4775 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4776 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4777 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4778 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4783 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4786 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4787 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4788 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4793 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4799 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4805 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4808 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4809 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4810 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4811 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4812 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4813 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4817 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4823 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4826 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4830 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4833 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4834 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4835 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4839 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4842 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4846 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4852 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4855 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4859 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4862 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4866 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4872 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4875 postinst, postrm, etc.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4879 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4885 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4888 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4889 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4890 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4891 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4892 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4896 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4899 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4900 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4904 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4907 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4911 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4914 installing package files into.
4915 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4920 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4924 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4928 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4934 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4937 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4941 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4944 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4945 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4946 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4947 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4951 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4953 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4954 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4955 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4956 multiple binary packages.
4957 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4958 should rebuild them with this version.
4959 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4963 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4966 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4970 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4973 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4977 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4980 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4981 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4982 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4983 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4984 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4985 debian/README.debian.
4986 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4987 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4988 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4989 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4990 in a few situations.)
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4994 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5000 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5006 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5009 * Fixed several man pages.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5013 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5016 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5017 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5021 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5024 is ready for general use.
5025 * Added man pages for all commands.
5026 * Multiple binary package support.
5027 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5028 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5029 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5031 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5032 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5033 auto-installed as parameters.
5034 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5036 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5039 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5040 the package build directory it is to act on.
5041 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5042 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5043 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5047 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5049 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5050 ready to replace debstd.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400