1 debhelper (7.0.9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 May 2008 18:53:10 -0400
7 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
10 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
11 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
12 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
13 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
15 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
16 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
17 breaking backwards compatability.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
21 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
28 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
34 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Convert copyright file to new format.
37 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
41 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
44 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
48 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
51 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
52 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
53 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
54 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
55 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
56 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
57 logging by dh_listpackages.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
61 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
64 run and there are no packages of that type.
65 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
66 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
67 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
68 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
70 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
71 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
75 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
77 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
78 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
79 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
83 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
86 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
87 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
89 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
90 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
91 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
92 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
93 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
94 planned but not yet implemented.)
95 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
96 if the Makefile has such a target.
97 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
98 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
99 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
100 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
101 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
102 but not yet implemented.)
103 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
104 recommended default, especially when using dh.
105 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
106 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
107 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
109 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
111 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
112 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
114 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
115 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
116 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
121 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
124 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
125 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
129 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
131 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
132 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
133 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
137 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
143 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
149 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
152 just those installed by the program.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
156 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
159 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
160 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
164 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
167 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
168 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
169 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
170 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
174 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
177 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
178 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
182 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
185 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
186 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
190 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
193 with policy. Closes: #461392
194 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
195 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
196 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
197 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
198 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
202 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
205 Closes: #460340, #460351
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
209 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
212 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
213 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
214 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
215 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
219 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
222 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
223 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
224 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
225 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
226 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
227 package build directory won't work.
228 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
229 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
230 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
231 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
232 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
233 mode. Closes: #459426
234 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
239 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
242 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
246 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
250 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
251 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
252 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
253 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
254 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
255 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
259 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
262 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
263 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
264 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
265 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
269 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
272 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
273 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
274 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
275 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
276 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
280 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
283 debian/package.triggers files.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
287 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
290 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
294 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
297 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
298 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
299 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
300 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
305 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
308 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
312 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
315 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
316 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
318 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
323 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
327 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
328 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
329 * Typo. Closes: #441272
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
333 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
340 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
347 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
350 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
352 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
353 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
354 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
356 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
357 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
358 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
362 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
365 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
366 * Update urls to web page.
367 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
369 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
370 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
374 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
377 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
378 - typo in alternatives call
379 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
381 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
382 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
386 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
389 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
394 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
400 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
406 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
409 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
411 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
412 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
413 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
414 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
415 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
416 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
417 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
418 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
419 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
420 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
421 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
425 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
428 package install. Closes: #415717
429 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
430 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
431 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
432 script and then remove the python files.
433 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
434 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
435 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
436 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
437 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
438 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
439 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
440 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
441 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
442 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
443 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
444 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
445 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
449 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Correct typo in french translation
455 * Typo. Closes: #400571
456 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
458 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
460 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
461 Closes: #406921, #381940
462 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
464 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
465 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
466 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
467 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
468 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
469 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
470 specified). Closes: #381851
471 * Misc minor changes.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
475 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
482 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
483 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
487 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
493 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
494 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
497 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
498 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
500 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
501 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
502 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
503 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
507 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
510 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
513 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
517 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
523 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
529 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
530 a difficult situation.
531 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
532 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
533 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
534 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
535 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
536 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
537 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
538 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
539 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
540 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
544 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Non-maintainer upload.
547 * Update of dh_python
548 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
549 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
551 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
552 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
553 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
554 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
555 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
557 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
559 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Non-maintainer upload.
562 * Update of dh_python
563 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
564 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
565 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
566 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
567 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
568 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
569 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
570 specific python version. Closes: #373853
571 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
572 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
574 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
575 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
576 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
577 the not too-distant future).
578 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
579 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
580 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
581 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
582 thus made the build fail.
584 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
586 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Non-maintainer upload.
589 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
591 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
593 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
596 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
597 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
598 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
599 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
600 package. Closes: #301424
601 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
602 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
603 fonts). Closes: #372686
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
607 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
613 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
614 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
615 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
616 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
617 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
618 above, but already depends on that.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
622 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
625 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
626 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
627 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
628 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
629 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
633 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
639 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
645 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
646 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
650 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
653 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
657 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
661 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
662 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
663 new version (0.24.1).
664 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
665 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
668 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
669 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
670 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
671 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
672 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
673 new directory on their own.
674 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
675 * Fix broken directory removal code.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
679 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
682 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
683 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
684 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
685 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
689 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
692 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
693 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
694 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
695 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
696 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
700 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
706 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Typo. Closes: #358904
710 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
711 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
715 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
716 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
720 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
722 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
723 || exit 0 instead of the intended
725 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
726 ignored. Closes: #337664
728 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
733 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
739 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
744 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
745 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
746 the dh_installdebconf manpage
747 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
748 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
749 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
750 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
754 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
757 version. Closes: #350607
758 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
759 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
760 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
761 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
765 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
768 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
769 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
770 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
774 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
781 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Minor bug fix from last release.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
787 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
790 language guessing. Closes: #193221
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
794 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
797 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
798 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
799 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
800 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
801 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
802 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
806 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
809 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
810 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
815 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
818 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
822 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
825 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
829 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
832 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
833 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
834 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
835 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
836 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
837 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
841 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
844 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
845 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
846 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
847 link. Closes: #346405
848 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
851 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
852 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
853 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
854 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
855 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
856 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
860 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
867 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
869 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
873 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
876 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
880 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
883 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
888 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
892 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
893 installed. Closes: #342033
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
897 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
900 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
901 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
902 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
907 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
913 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
919 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
923 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
924 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
925 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
929 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
932 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
937 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
944 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
950 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
952 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
953 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
954 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
955 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
956 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
957 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
958 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
959 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
961 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
965 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
968 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
969 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
973 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
976 in standard man dirs.
977 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
981 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
987 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
990 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
995 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1002 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1009 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1012 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1013 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1017 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1020 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1021 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1022 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1024 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1026 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1032 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1038 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1041 mode. Closes: #324161
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1045 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1048 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1049 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1050 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1051 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1056 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1059 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1060 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1061 is necesary for sanity.
1062 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1063 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1068 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1070 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1071 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1075 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1078 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1082 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1088 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1091 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1092 released, so use at your own risk.
1093 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1094 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1096 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1097 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1098 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1099 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1100 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1101 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1102 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1103 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1104 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1105 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1106 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1107 including twice per config file line now..
1108 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1109 and simplfy the rules file.
1110 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1111 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1112 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1114 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1115 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1119 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1122 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1126 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1129 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1133 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1136 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1140 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1143 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1144 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1145 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1146 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1147 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1148 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1152 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1155 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1156 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1157 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1162 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1165 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1166 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1171 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1174 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1175 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1176 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1181 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1184 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1185 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1186 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1190 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1196 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1203 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1206 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1207 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1208 unknown. Closes: #282924
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1212 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1219 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Spanish man page updates.
1222 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1236 * dh_desktop: reindent
1237 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1238 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1242 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1250 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1254 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1256 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1260 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1263 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1264 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1268 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1274 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1280 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1287 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1290 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1294 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1297 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1298 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1299 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1300 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1301 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1302 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1304 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1305 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1306 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1307 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1308 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1309 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1310 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1311 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1312 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1313 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1314 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1315 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1316 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1317 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1318 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1319 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1333 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1337 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1340 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1344 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1347 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1351 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1354 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1364 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1370 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1376 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1379 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1380 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1381 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1385 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1388 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1392 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1395 but occasionally right and necessary.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1399 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1402 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1403 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1404 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1405 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1406 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1410 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1413 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1415 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1416 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1417 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1418 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1419 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1420 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1421 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1422 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1423 postinst scripts for udebs.
1424 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1428 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1431 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1433 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1434 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1438 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1444 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1451 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1458 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1461 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1465 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1468 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1472 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1475 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1478 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1479 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1483 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1489 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1492 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1496 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1499 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1500 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1501 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1503 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1505 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1506 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1507 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1511 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1514 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1519 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1522 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1523 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1524 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1529 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1535 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1544 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1545 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1546 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1547 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1548 associated -dbg packages.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1552 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1555 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1559 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1562 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1566 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1569 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1573 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1576 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1581 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1584 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1588 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1591 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1596 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1599 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1603 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1607 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1608 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1609 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1610 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1611 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1612 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1613 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1614 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1615 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1616 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1620 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1623 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1628 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1631 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1632 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1636 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1639 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1640 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1645 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1648 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1655 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1659 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1662 out section number. Closes: #204731
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1666 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1673 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1679 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1685 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1688 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1689 removal. Closes: #204286
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1693 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1696 renaming. Closes: #203548
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1700 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1703 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1704 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1708 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1714 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1720 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1726 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1729 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1730 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1731 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1735 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1738 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1739 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1743 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1749 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1756 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1759 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1764 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1767 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1771 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1774 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1776 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1777 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1784 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1789 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1792 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1804 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1811 it break hard links (see #188663).
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1815 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1818 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1828 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1832 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1833 debconf-mergetemplates
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1837 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1840 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1844 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1847 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1851 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1854 * Update debhelper(1).
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1858 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1861 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1862 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1863 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1864 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1865 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1869 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1872 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1873 the shell. Closes: #178524
1874 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1878 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1881 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1885 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1888 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1892 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1895 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1896 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1897 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1898 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1903 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1906 files from installation.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1910 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1913 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1914 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1918 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1921 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1925 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1928 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1932 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1938 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1944 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1948 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1949 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1951 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1955 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1958 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1959 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1960 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1961 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1965 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1968 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1972 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1975 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1976 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1980 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1984 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1999 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2000 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2001 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2009 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2010 practice. Closes: #163303
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2030 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2032 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2033 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2034 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2035 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2036 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2043 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2048 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2064 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2097 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2098 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2099 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2100 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2105 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2118 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2121 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2122 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2126 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2129 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2130 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2131 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2132 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2133 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2140 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2142 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2150 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2154 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2157 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2158 right thing. Closes: #150644
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Stupid, evil typo.
2165 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2169 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2179 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2180 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2194 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2201 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2202 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2210 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2223 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2224 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Removing perl warning message.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2240 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2243 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2244 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2245 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2246 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2247 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2248 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2249 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2250 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2270 debconf-mergetemplate.
2271 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2272 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2279 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2280 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2281 dh_install, which ...
2282 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2283 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2284 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2285 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2286 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2287 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2288 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2289 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2290 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2291 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2292 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2293 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2294 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2295 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2296 other minor changes.
2297 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2298 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2299 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2300 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2301 course there's -X ..)
2302 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2303 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2304 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2306 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2307 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2308 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2309 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2310 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2315 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2321 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2324 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2328 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2334 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2340 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2346 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2352 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2355 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2356 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2357 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2358 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2360 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2361 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2365 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2371 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2374 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2378 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2381 upset. Closes: #131322
2383 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2385 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2388 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2389 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2390 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2391 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2392 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2393 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2394 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2395 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2396 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2397 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2398 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2399 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2400 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2401 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2402 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2404 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2408 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2411 - Better indenting of generated code.
2412 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2416 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2420 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2421 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2422 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2423 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2424 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2425 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2426 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2430 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2433 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2437 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2440 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2441 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2442 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2443 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2444 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2445 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2446 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2447 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2448 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2449 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2450 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2451 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2452 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2453 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2454 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2459 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2465 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2468 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2469 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2473 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2476 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2477 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2481 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2487 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2490 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2491 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2492 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2493 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2494 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2499 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2505 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2508 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2512 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2515 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2520 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2526 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2529 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2533 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2539 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2543 Also some indentation fixes.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2547 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2550 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2551 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2552 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2553 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2554 Closes: #106514, #85520
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2558 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2564 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2570 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2576 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2582 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2588 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2591 change it in debhelper v4..
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2595 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2601 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2604 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2608 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2611 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2615 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2621 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2624 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2625 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2626 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2627 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2628 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2629 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2630 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2631 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2632 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2633 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2634 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2635 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2639 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2642 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2646 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2653 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2656 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2657 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2658 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2659 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2660 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2661 program those options go to. So, for example,
2662 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2663 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2664 something complex. Closes: #89311
2665 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2669 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2672 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2673 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2674 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2678 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2681 through loop. Closes: #98598
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2685 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Missing semi-colon.
2688 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2689 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2693 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2696 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2697 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2698 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2702 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2705 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2706 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2710 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2713 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2717 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2720 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2721 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2725 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2728 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2729 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2730 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2734 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2737 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2738 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2739 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2743 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2746 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2750 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2756 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2762 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2768 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2774 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2777 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2781 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2784 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2785 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2786 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2787 followed. Closes: #85483
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2791 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2793 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2794 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2795 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2799 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2802 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2803 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2804 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2805 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2806 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2807 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2808 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2809 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2810 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2811 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2812 Closes: #88464, #77743
2813 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2814 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2815 us to deal with that gracefully.
2816 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2818 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2819 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2820 a while, Closes: #51225
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2824 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2830 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2833 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2837 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2841 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2846 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2849 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2850 don't make packlist files.
2851 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2852 debhelper coding standards.
2853 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2854 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2858 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2861 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2865 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2868 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2869 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2870 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2871 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2872 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2873 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2874 but is mildly deprecated.
2875 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2876 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2877 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2878 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2879 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2880 switching to statoverrides..
2881 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2882 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2883 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2884 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2885 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2886 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2888 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2889 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2890 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2891 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2892 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2893 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2894 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2895 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2896 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2898 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2899 variable names, pod man pages).
2900 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2901 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2902 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2903 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2904 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2905 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2906 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2910 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2916 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2923 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2926 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2930 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2932 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2933 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2934 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2938 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2940 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2941 they were previously ignored.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2945 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2947 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2948 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2952 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2954 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2955 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2956 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2960 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2962 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2966 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2968 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2969 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2973 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2975 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2976 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2977 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2978 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2979 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2980 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2981 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2982 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2983 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2984 it is an obsolete program.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2988 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2990 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2994 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2998 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3000 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3004 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3006 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3008 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3010 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3014 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3020 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * typo: Closes, #78567
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3026 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3032 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3038 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3041 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3042 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3043 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3044 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3045 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3049 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3052 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3057 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3060 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3061 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3062 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3063 backwards-compatability.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3067 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3070 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3071 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3072 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3073 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3074 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3075 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3077 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3078 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3079 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3081 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3083 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3084 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3085 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3086 should now be raised to severity important..
3087 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3088 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3092 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3095 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3100 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3106 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3112 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3118 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3125 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3128 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3129 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3130 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3131 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3135 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3141 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3144 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3145 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3146 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3147 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3148 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3149 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3154 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3157 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3161 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3167 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3170 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3175 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3178 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3179 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3180 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3181 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3185 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3189 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3192 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3195 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3196 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3199 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3201 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3202 the TODO entry about it.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3206 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3213 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3216 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3217 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3221 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3224 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3225 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3226 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3227 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3231 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3237 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3244 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3247 (this appears to be logal).
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3251 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3254 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3255 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3256 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3257 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3261 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3267 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3270 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3271 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3272 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3273 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3277 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3283 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3286 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3290 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3297 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3300 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3301 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3302 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3307 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3314 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3320 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3323 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3324 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3325 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3326 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3327 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3328 notice until v2 is complete.
3329 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3330 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3331 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3332 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3333 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3334 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3336 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3337 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3338 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3339 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3343 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3349 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3356 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3359 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3363 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3370 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3373 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3374 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3375 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3376 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3381 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3384 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3385 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3386 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3391 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3394 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3395 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3399 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3402 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3406 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3409 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3413 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3420 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3423 depend on the build and install targets.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3427 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3430 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3434 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3441 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3447 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3456 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3457 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3458 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3459 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3460 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3461 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3463 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3464 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3465 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3466 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3467 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3468 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3469 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3473 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3479 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3485 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3488 right place. Closes: #55065
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3492 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3499 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3502 * Copyright date updates.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3506 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3509 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3514 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3520 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3527 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3548 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3549 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3550 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3551 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3552 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3553 bits until all files have been registered.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3557 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_installmanpages:
3560 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3561 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3562 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3563 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3564 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3565 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3566 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3567 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3568 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3569 otherwise change the result at all.
3571 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3572 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3573 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3574 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3575 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3580 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3586 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3589 act on files that don't exist.
3590 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3591 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3592 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3594 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3595 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3596 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3597 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3601 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3607 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3613 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3616 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3620 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3623 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3625 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3626 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3627 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3631 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3634 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3635 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3636 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3637 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3638 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3639 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3640 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3642 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3644 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3648 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3655 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3670 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3680 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3686 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3689 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3690 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3691 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3692 I made some changes, though:
3693 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3694 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3695 that is a clear violation of policy.
3696 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3697 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3698 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3699 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3700 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3701 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3702 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3703 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3704 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3706 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3716 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3719 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3723 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3726 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3727 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3738 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3745 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3748 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3749 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3750 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3751 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3752 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3753 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3754 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3758 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3768 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3769 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3773 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3779 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3782 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3786 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3789 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3790 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3796 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3801 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3805 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3809 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3812 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3813 for the dependancies to be generated.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3820 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3824 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3827 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3828 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3829 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3837 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3838 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3842 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3848 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3854 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3857 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3861 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3870 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3871 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3872 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3873 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3874 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3875 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3876 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3877 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3878 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3879 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3880 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3881 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3888 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3889 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3891 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3892 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3893 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3894 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3895 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3896 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3898 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3899 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3903 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3906 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3910 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3917 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3920 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3925 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3928 for building debhelper.
3929 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3933 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3943 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3947 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3950 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3951 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3952 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3953 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3954 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3955 it's always available.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3962 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3963 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3964 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3971 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3972 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3985 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3998 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3999 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4000 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4007 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4015 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4016 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4018 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4019 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4038 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4045 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4046 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4048 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4052 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4055 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4056 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4057 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4064 things if CDPATH is set.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4077 seems to make sense for the transition.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4084 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4089 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4092 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4093 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4100 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4107 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4108 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4109 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4110 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4123 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4124 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4125 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4126 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4127 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4128 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4129 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4130 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4131 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4132 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4137 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4140 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4141 * README: mention doc/v2
4142 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4143 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4147 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4149 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4150 be using this script RSN.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4154 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4157 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4158 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4159 more than 1 init script.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4163 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4166 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4170 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Changed perl version detection.
4173 * Changed call to find.
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4177 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4180 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4182 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4187 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Really include dh_installpam.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4193 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4196 * Wrote man page for same.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4200 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4203 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4204 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4209 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4216 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4219 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4220 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4221 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4222 x bit was being set!
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4226 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4229 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4230 well. (Closes: 38900)
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4234 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4237 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4238 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4242 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4248 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4255 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4261 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4264 help from Julian Gilbey.
4265 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4266 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4267 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4268 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4269 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4270 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4271 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4276 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4282 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4289 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4295 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4301 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4304 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4308 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4311 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4315 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4318 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4322 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4328 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4331 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4335 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4341 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4347 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4350 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4351 may be deleted. (#35845)
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4355 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Various man page enhancements.
4358 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4363 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4366 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4367 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4371 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4374 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4375 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4376 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4378 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4379 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4384 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4390 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Another very minor typo fix.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4396 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Very minor typo fix.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4402 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4405 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4406 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4410 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4416 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4419 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4420 variables properly (#34850).
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4424 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4430 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4433 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4434 (automatically generated by build process).
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4438 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4440 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4444 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4447 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4448 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4450 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4454 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4457 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4461 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * README: minor typo fix.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4467 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4470 leave it at that. :-)
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4474 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4480 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4486 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4489 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4490 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4491 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4495 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4498 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4502 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4505 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4509 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4512 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4513 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4514 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4515 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4519 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4522 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4523 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4524 Craig Small for spotting this.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4528 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4531 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4532 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4536 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4542 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4545 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4549 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4551 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4552 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4553 working on the last version of debhelper.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4557 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4560 being made. (#23255)
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4564 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4570 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4573 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4577 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4580 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4581 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4582 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4583 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4587 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4590 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4591 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4592 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4593 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4595 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4596 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4598 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4603 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4609 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4618 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4619 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4620 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4621 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4622 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4623 suidregister actually supports it.
4624 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4625 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4629 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4636 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4639 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4640 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4641 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4642 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4643 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4644 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4645 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4649 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4651 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4652 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4656 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4659 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4660 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4661 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4662 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4666 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4669 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4671 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4672 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4673 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4674 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4675 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4676 effect, either. (#30118)
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4680 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4686 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4689 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4690 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4703 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4704 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4705 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4706 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4710 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4713 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4714 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4718 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4724 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4727 packages, painlessly.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4731 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4737 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4743 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4749 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * The perl conversion is complete.
4753 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4755 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4756 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4757 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4762 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4765 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4766 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4767 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4771 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4774 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4776 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4778 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4779 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4783 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4786 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4787 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4791 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4800 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4801 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4802 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4803 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4804 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4808 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4811 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4812 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4813 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4814 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4821 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4825 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4828 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4829 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4830 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4831 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4832 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4833 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4834 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4835 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4839 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4845 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4848 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4849 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4850 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4855 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4858 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4862 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4865 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4869 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4872 sections of shared libraries.
4873 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4874 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4875 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4876 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4877 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4878 things you don't want them to.
4879 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4880 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4884 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4887 shared libraries. (#26414)
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4891 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4893 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4894 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4895 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4896 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4904 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4906 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4907 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4908 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4909 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4910 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4914 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4917 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4921 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4924 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4925 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4933 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4937 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4940 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4941 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4942 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4943 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4944 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4946 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4947 remove debian/files properly.
4948 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4949 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4950 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4951 * Removed bogus menu file.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4955 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4958 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4962 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4965 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4966 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4967 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4968 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4969 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4970 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4974 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4977 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4978 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4979 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4980 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4984 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4991 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4994 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4995 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4997 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4998 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4999 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5000 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5001 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5002 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5006 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5009 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5010 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5011 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5012 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5013 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5014 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5015 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5016 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5017 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5018 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5019 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5020 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5021 passed any switches.
5022 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5029 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5030 at all for a long while.
5031 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5032 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5033 large chunks in the process.
5034 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5035 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5036 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5044 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5046 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5051 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5054 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5055 that don't always have the same files in them.
5056 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5057 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5058 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5062 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5066 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5067 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5068 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5069 updating 27 man pages.
5070 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5071 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5072 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5073 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5074 programs act on. (#25247)
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5082 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5083 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5084 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5085 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5086 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5087 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5092 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5099 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5106 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5109 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5113 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5119 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5122 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5123 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5124 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5125 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5126 package by accident.
5127 * Is version 1.0 next?
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5131 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5134 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5135 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5139 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5142 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5143 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5144 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5145 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5146 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5148 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5153 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5156 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5157 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5161 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5164 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5168 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5171 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5172 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5177 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5183 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5186 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5187 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5192 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5198 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5201 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5202 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5203 past week. Thanks, guys!
5205 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5206 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5207 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5208 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5209 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5210 would do in the same situation.
5211 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5212 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5214 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5216 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5217 permissions changed.
5218 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5219 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5220 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5221 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5222 files are treated identically.
5223 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5224 * Minor man page fixes.
5225 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5226 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5227 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5231 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5234 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5235 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5236 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5237 use -X multiple times, too.
5238 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5239 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5243 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5246 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5247 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5251 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5254 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5258 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5261 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5262 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5263 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5264 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5265 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5266 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5267 shape if you're starting a new package.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5271 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5274 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5278 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5281 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5282 because of missing symlinks.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5286 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5292 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5295 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5296 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5297 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5298 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5299 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5301 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5302 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5306 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5308 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5309 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5310 to be changed after the fact :-)
5311 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5315 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5318 no version string after the -V.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5322 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5324 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5325 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5330 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5333 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5337 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5340 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5341 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5342 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5343 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5344 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5345 I always welcome corrections!
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5349 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5355 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5358 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5359 * Documented this new switch.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5363 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5366 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5367 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5368 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5369 no packages use the old behavior.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5373 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5376 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5377 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5381 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5384 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5388 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5394 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5397 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5401 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5404 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5405 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5406 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5410 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5416 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5419 into the source package by accident.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5423 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5426 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5427 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5428 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5429 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5430 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5431 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5436 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5440 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5441 inspired to implement some of it.
5442 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5446 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5449 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5453 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5456 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5457 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5461 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5464 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5465 have done.) (#17598)
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5469 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5475 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5481 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5484 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5488 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5491 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5492 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5496 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5499 argument processor in perl.
5500 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5501 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5502 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5503 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5507 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5510 type directories. (#16933)
5511 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5512 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5513 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5514 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5515 are supported. (#16935)
5516 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5521 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5524 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5528 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5532 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5533 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5534 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5535 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5536 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5537 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5541 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5544 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5545 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5547 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5548 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5549 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5550 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5551 a given package, or -i or -a.
5552 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5553 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5554 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5555 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5556 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5557 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5558 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5559 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5560 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5562 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5563 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5564 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5568 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5571 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5572 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5577 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5580 does not have a section.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5584 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5587 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5588 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5589 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5593 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * Fixed typo #16215.
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5599 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5602 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5603 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5604 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5605 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5606 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5611 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5614 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5615 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5616 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5621 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5627 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5633 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5636 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5637 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5638 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5639 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5640 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5641 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5645 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5651 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5654 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5658 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5661 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5662 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5663 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5667 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5670 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5674 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5680 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5683 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5687 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5690 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5694 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5700 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5703 postinst, postrm, etc.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5707 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5713 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5716 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5717 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5718 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5719 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5720 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5724 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5727 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5728 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5732 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5735 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5739 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5742 installing package files into.
5743 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5748 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5752 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5756 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5762 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5765 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5769 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5772 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5773 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5774 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5775 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5779 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5781 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5782 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5783 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5784 multiple binary packages.
5785 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5786 should rebuild them with this version.
5787 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5791 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5794 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5798 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5801 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5805 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5808 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5809 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5810 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5811 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5812 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5813 debian/README.debian.
5814 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5815 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5816 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5817 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5818 in a few situations.)
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5822 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5828 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5834 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5837 * Fixed several man pages.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5841 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5844 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5845 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5849 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5852 is ready for general use.
5853 * Added man pages for all commands.
5854 * Multiple binary package support.
5855 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5856 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5857 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5859 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5860 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5861 auto-installed as parameters.
5862 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5864 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5867 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5868 the package build directory it is to act on.
5869 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5870 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5871 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5875 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5877 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5878 ready to replace debstd.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400