1 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
7 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
10 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
14 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
17 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
22 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
26 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
27 installed. Closes: #342033
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
31 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
34 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
35 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
36 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
41 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
47 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
53 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
57 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
58 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
59 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
63 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
66 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
71 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
78 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
84 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
86 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
87 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
88 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
89 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
90 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
91 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
92 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
93 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
95 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
99 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
102 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
103 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
107 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
110 in standard man dirs.
111 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
115 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
121 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
124 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
129 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
136 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
143 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
146 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
147 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
151 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
153 * NMU with maintainer approval.
154 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
155 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
156 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
158 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
160 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
166 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
172 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
175 mode. Closes: #324161
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
179 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
182 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
183 behavior change. Closes: #249815
184 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
185 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
190 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
193 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
194 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
195 is necesary for sanity.
196 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
197 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
202 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
204 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
205 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
209 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
212 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
216 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
222 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
225 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
226 released, so use at your own risk.
227 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
228 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
230 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
231 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
232 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
233 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
234 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
235 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
236 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
237 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
238 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
239 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
240 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
241 including twice per config file line now..
242 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
243 and simplfy the rules file.
244 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
245 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
246 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
248 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
249 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
253 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
256 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
260 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
263 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
267 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
269 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
270 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
274 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
277 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
278 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
279 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
280 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
281 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
282 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
286 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
289 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
290 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
291 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
296 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
299 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
300 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
305 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
308 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
309 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
310 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
315 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
318 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
319 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
320 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
324 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
330 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
337 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
340 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
341 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
342 unknown. Closes: #282924
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
346 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
353 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Spanish man page updates.
356 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
361 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
367 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
370 * dh_desktop: reindent
371 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
372 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
376 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
382 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
384 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
388 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
390 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
394 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
397 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
398 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
402 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
408 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
414 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
421 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
424 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
428 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
431 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
432 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
433 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
434 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
435 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
436 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
438 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
439 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
440 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
441 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
442 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
443 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
444 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
445 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
446 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
447 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
448 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
449 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
450 in the others, and added a few new tests.
451 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
452 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
453 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
457 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
464 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
467 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
471 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
474 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
478 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
481 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
485 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
488 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
492 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
498 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
504 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
510 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
513 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
514 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
515 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
519 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
522 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
526 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
529 but occasionally right and necessary.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
533 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
536 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
537 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
538 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
539 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
540 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
544 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
547 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
549 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
550 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
551 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
552 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
553 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
554 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
555 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
556 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
557 postinst scripts for udebs.
558 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
562 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
565 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
567 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
568 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
572 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
578 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
585 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
592 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
595 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
599 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
602 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
606 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
609 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
612 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
613 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
617 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
623 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
626 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
630 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
633 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
634 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
635 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
637 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
639 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
640 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
641 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
645 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
648 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
653 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
656 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
657 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
658 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
663 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
669 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
675 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
678 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
679 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
680 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
681 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
682 associated -dbg packages.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
686 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
689 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
693 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
696 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
700 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
703 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
707 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
710 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
715 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Typo. Closes: #207999
718 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
722 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
725 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
730 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
733 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
737 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
741 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
742 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
743 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
744 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
745 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
746 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
747 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
748 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
749 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
750 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
754 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
757 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
762 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
765 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
766 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
770 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
773 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
774 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
779 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
782 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
786 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
789 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
793 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
796 out section number. Closes: #204731
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
800 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
807 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
813 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
819 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Typo, Closes: #203907
822 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
823 removal. Closes: #204286
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
827 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
830 renaming. Closes: #203548
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
834 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
837 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
838 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
842 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
848 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
854 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
860 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
863 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
864 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
865 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
869 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
872 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
873 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
877 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
883 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
890 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
893 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
898 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
901 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
905 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
908 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
910 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
911 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
915 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
918 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
923 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
926 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
930 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
936 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
938 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
942 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
945 it break hard links (see #188663).
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
949 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
952 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
956 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
962 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
966 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
967 debconf-mergetemplates
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
971 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
974 pod2man. Closes: #184013
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
978 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
981 * Typo, Closes: #183267
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
985 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
988 * Update debhelper(1).
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
992 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
994 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
995 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
996 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
997 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
998 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
999 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1003 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1006 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1007 the shell. Closes: #178524
1008 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1012 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1015 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1019 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1022 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1026 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1029 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1030 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1031 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1032 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1037 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1040 files from installation.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1044 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1047 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1048 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1052 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1055 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1059 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1062 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1066 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1072 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1078 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1082 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1083 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1085 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1089 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1092 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1093 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1094 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1095 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1099 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1102 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1106 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1109 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1110 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1114 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1118 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1123 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1129 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1133 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1134 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1135 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1140 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1143 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1144 practice. Closes: #163303
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1148 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1154 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1161 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1164 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1166 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1167 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1168 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1169 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1170 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1174 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1177 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1182 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1188 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1198 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1203 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1209 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1215 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1221 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1228 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1231 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1232 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1233 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1234 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1239 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1245 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1252 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1255 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1256 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1260 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1263 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1264 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1265 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1266 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1267 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1271 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1274 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1276 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1284 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1291 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1292 right thing. Closes: #150644
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Stupid, evil typo.
1299 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1313 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1314 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1319 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1325 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1328 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1335 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1336 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1341 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1344 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1348 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1354 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1357 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1358 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1362 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1368 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Removing perl warning message.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1374 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1377 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1378 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1379 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1380 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1381 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1382 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1383 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1384 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1388 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1401 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1404 debconf-mergetemplate.
1405 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1406 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1413 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1414 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1415 dh_install, which ...
1416 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1417 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1418 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1419 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1420 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1421 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1422 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1423 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1424 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1425 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1426 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1427 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1428 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1429 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1430 other minor changes.
1431 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1432 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1433 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1434 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1435 course there's -X ..)
1436 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1437 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1438 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1440 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1441 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1442 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1443 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1444 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1449 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1455 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1458 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1462 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1468 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1474 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1480 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1486 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1489 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1490 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1491 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1492 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1494 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1495 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1499 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1505 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1508 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1512 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1515 upset. Closes: #131322
1517 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1519 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1522 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1523 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1524 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1525 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1526 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1527 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1528 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1529 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1530 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1531 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1532 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1533 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1534 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1535 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1536 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1538 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1542 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1545 - Better indenting of generated code.
1546 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1550 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1554 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1555 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1556 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1557 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1558 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1559 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1560 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1564 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1567 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1571 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1574 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1575 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1576 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1577 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1578 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1579 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1580 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1581 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1582 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1583 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1584 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1585 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1586 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1587 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1588 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1593 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1599 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1602 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1603 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1607 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1610 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1611 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1615 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1621 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1624 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1625 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1626 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1627 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1628 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1633 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1639 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1642 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1646 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1649 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1654 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1660 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1663 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1667 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1673 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1677 Also some indentation fixes.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1681 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1684 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1685 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1686 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1687 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1688 Closes: #106514, #85520
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1692 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1698 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1704 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1710 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1716 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1722 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1725 change it in debhelper v4..
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1729 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1735 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1738 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1742 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1745 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1749 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1755 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1758 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1759 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1760 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1761 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1762 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1763 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1764 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1765 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1766 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1767 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1768 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1769 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1773 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1776 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1780 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1787 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1790 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1791 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1792 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1793 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1794 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1795 program those options go to. So, for example,
1796 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1797 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1798 something complex. Closes: #89311
1799 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1803 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1806 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1807 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1808 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1812 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1815 through loop. Closes: #98598
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1819 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Missing semi-colon.
1822 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1823 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1827 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1830 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1831 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1832 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1836 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1839 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1840 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1844 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1847 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1851 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1854 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1855 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1859 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1862 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1863 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1864 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1868 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1871 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1872 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1873 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1877 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1880 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1884 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1890 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1896 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1902 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1908 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1911 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1915 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1918 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1919 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1920 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1921 followed. Closes: #85483
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1925 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1927 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1928 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1929 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1933 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1936 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1937 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1938 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1939 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1940 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1941 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1942 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1943 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1944 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1945 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1946 Closes: #88464, #77743
1947 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1948 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1949 us to deal with that gracefully.
1950 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1952 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1953 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1954 a while, Closes: #51225
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1958 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1964 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1967 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1971 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1975 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1980 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1983 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1984 don't make packlist files.
1985 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1986 debhelper coding standards.
1987 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1988 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1992 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1995 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1999 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2002 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2003 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2004 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2005 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2006 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2007 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2008 but is mildly deprecated.
2009 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2010 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2011 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2012 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2013 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2014 switching to statoverrides..
2015 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2016 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2017 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2018 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2019 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2020 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2022 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2023 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2024 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2025 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2026 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2027 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2028 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2029 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2030 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2032 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2033 variable names, pod man pages).
2034 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2035 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2036 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2037 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2038 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2039 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2040 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2044 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2050 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2057 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2060 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2064 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2066 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2067 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2068 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2072 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2074 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2075 they were previously ignored.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2079 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2081 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2082 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2086 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2088 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2089 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2090 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2094 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2096 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2100 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2102 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2103 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2107 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2109 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2110 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2111 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2112 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2113 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2114 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2115 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2116 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2117 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2118 it is an obsolete program.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2122 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2124 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2128 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2132 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2134 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2138 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2140 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2142 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2144 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2148 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2154 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * typo: Closes, #78567
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2160 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2166 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2172 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2175 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2176 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2177 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2178 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2179 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2183 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2186 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2191 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2194 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2195 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2196 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2197 backwards-compatability.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2201 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2204 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2205 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2206 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2207 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2208 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2209 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2211 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2212 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2213 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2215 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2217 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2218 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2219 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2220 should now be raised to severity important..
2221 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2222 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2226 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2229 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2234 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2240 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2246 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2252 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2259 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2262 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2263 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2264 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2265 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2269 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2275 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2278 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2279 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2280 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2281 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2282 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2283 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2288 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2291 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2295 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2301 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2304 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2309 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2312 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2313 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2314 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2315 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2319 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2323 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2326 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2329 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2330 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2333 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2335 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2336 the TODO entry about it.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2340 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2347 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2350 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2351 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2355 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2358 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2359 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2360 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2361 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2365 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2371 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2378 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2381 (this appears to be logal).
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2385 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2388 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2389 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2390 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2391 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2395 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2401 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2404 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2405 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2406 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2407 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2411 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2417 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2420 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2424 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2431 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2434 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2435 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2436 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2441 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2448 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2454 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2457 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2458 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2459 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2460 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2461 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2462 notice until v2 is complete.
2463 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2464 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2465 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2466 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2467 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2468 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2470 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2471 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2472 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2473 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2477 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2483 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2490 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2493 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2497 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2504 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2507 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2508 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2509 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2510 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2515 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2518 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2519 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2520 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2525 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2528 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2529 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2533 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2536 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2540 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2543 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2547 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2554 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2557 depend on the build and install targets.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2561 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2564 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2568 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2575 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2581 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2587 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2590 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2591 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2592 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2593 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2594 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2595 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2597 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2598 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2599 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2600 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2601 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2602 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2603 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2607 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2613 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2619 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2622 right place. Closes: #55065
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2626 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2633 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2636 * Copyright date updates.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2640 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2643 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2648 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2654 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2661 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2667 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2673 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2679 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2682 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2683 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2684 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2685 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2686 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2687 bits until all files have been registered.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2691 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_installmanpages:
2694 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2695 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2696 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2697 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2698 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2699 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2700 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2701 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2702 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2703 otherwise change the result at all.
2705 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2706 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2707 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2708 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2709 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2714 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2720 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2723 act on files that don't exist.
2724 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2725 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2726 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2728 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2729 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2730 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2731 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2735 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2741 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2747 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2750 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2754 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2757 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2759 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2760 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2761 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2765 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2768 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2769 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2770 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2771 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2772 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2773 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2774 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2776 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2778 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2782 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2789 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2795 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2801 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2804 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2808 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2814 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2820 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2823 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2824 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2825 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2826 I made some changes, though:
2827 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2828 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2829 that is a clear violation of policy.
2830 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2831 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2832 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2833 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2834 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2835 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2836 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2837 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2838 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2840 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2844 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2850 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2853 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2857 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2860 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2861 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2866 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2872 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2879 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2882 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2883 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2884 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2885 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2886 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2887 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2888 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2892 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2898 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2902 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2903 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2907 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2913 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2916 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2920 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2923 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2924 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2928 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2930 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2935 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2939 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2943 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2946 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2947 for the dependancies to be generated.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2951 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2954 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2958 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2961 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2962 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2963 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2968 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2971 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2972 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2976 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2982 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2988 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2991 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2995 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3001 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3004 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3005 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3006 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3007 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3008 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3009 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3010 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3011 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3012 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3013 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3014 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3015 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3019 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3022 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3023 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3025 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3026 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3027 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3028 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3029 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3030 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3032 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3033 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3037 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3040 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3044 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3051 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3054 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3059 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3062 for building debhelper.
3063 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3067 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3074 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3077 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3081 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3084 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3085 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3086 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3087 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3088 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3089 it's always available.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3093 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3096 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3097 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3098 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3102 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3105 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3106 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3110 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3116 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3119 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3123 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3129 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3132 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3133 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3134 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3138 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3141 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3146 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3149 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3150 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3152 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3153 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3157 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3163 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3169 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3172 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3176 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3179 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3180 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3182 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3186 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3189 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3190 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3191 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3195 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3198 things if CDPATH is set.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3202 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3208 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3211 seems to make sense for the transition.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3215 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3218 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3223 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3226 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3227 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3231 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3234 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3238 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3241 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3242 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3243 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3244 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3248 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3254 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3257 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3258 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3259 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3260 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3261 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3262 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3263 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3264 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3265 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3266 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3271 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3274 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3275 * README: mention doc/v2
3276 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3277 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3281 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3283 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3284 be using this script RSN.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3288 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3291 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3292 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3293 more than 1 init script.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3297 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3300 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3304 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Changed perl version detection.
3307 * Changed call to find.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3311 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3314 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3316 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3321 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Really include dh_installpam.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3327 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3330 * Wrote man page for same.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3334 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3337 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3338 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3343 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3350 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3353 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3354 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3355 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3356 x bit was being set!
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3360 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3363 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3364 well. (Closes: 38900)
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3368 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3371 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3372 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3376 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3382 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3389 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3395 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3398 help from Julian Gilbey.
3399 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3400 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3401 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3402 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3403 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3404 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3405 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3410 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3416 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3423 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3429 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3435 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3438 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3442 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3445 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3449 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3452 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3456 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3462 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3465 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3469 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3475 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3481 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3484 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3485 may be deleted. (#35845)
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3489 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Various man page enhancements.
3492 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3497 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3500 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3501 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3505 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3508 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3509 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3510 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3512 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3513 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3518 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3524 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Another very minor typo fix.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3530 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Very minor typo fix.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3536 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3539 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3540 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3544 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3550 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3553 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3554 variables properly (#34850).
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3558 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3564 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3567 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3568 (automatically generated by build process).
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3572 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3574 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3578 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3581 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3582 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3584 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3588 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3591 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3595 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * README: minor typo fix.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3601 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3604 leave it at that. :-)
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3608 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3614 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3620 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3623 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3624 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3625 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3629 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3632 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3636 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3639 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3643 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3646 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3647 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3648 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3649 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3653 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3656 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3657 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3658 Craig Small for spotting this.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3662 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3665 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3666 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3670 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3676 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3679 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3683 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3685 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3686 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3687 working on the last version of debhelper.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3691 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3694 being made. (#23255)
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3698 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3704 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3707 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3711 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3714 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3715 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3716 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3717 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3721 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3724 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3725 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3726 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3727 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3729 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3730 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3732 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3737 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3743 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3749 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3752 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3753 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3754 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3755 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3756 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3757 suidregister actually supports it.
3758 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3759 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3763 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3770 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3773 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3774 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3775 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3776 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3777 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3778 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3779 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3783 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3785 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3786 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3790 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3793 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3794 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3795 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3796 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3800 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3803 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3805 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3806 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3807 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3808 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3809 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3810 effect, either. (#30118)
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3814 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3820 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3823 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3824 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3828 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3834 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3837 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3838 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3839 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3840 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3844 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3847 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3848 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3852 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3858 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3861 packages, painlessly.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3865 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3871 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3877 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3883 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * The perl conversion is complete.
3887 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3889 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3890 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3891 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3896 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3899 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3900 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3901 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3905 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3908 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3910 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3912 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3913 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3917 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3920 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3921 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3925 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3931 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3934 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3935 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3936 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3937 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3938 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3942 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3945 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3946 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3947 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3948 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3952 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3955 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3959 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3962 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3963 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3964 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3965 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3966 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3967 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3968 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3969 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3973 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3979 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3982 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3983 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3984 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3989 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3992 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3996 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3999 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4003 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4006 sections of shared libraries.
4007 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4008 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4009 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4010 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4011 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4012 things you don't want them to.
4013 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4014 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4018 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4021 shared libraries. (#26414)
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4025 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4027 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4028 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4029 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4030 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4034 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4038 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4040 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4041 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4042 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4043 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4044 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4048 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4051 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4055 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4058 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4059 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4064 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4067 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4071 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4074 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4075 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4076 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4077 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4078 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4080 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4081 remove debian/files properly.
4082 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4083 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4084 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4085 * Removed bogus menu file.
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4089 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4092 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4096 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4099 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4100 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4101 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4102 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4103 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4104 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4108 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4111 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4112 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4113 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4114 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4118 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4125 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4128 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4129 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4131 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4132 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4133 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4134 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4135 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4136 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4140 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4143 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4144 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4145 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4146 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4147 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4148 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4149 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4150 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4151 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4152 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4153 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4154 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4155 passed any switches.
4156 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4160 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4163 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4164 at all for a long while.
4165 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4166 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4167 large chunks in the process.
4168 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4169 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4170 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4175 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4178 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4180 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4185 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4188 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4189 that don't always have the same files in them.
4190 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4191 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4192 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4196 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4200 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4201 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4202 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4203 updating 27 man pages.
4204 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4205 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4206 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4207 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4208 programs act on. (#25247)
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4212 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4216 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4217 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4218 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4219 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4220 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4221 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4226 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4233 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4240 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4243 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4247 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4253 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4256 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4257 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4258 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4259 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4260 package by accident.
4261 * Is version 1.0 next?
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4265 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4268 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4269 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4273 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4276 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4277 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4278 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4279 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4280 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4282 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4287 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4290 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4291 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4295 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4298 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4302 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4305 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4306 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4311 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4317 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4320 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4321 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4326 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4332 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4335 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4336 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4337 past week. Thanks, guys!
4339 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4340 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4341 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4342 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4343 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4344 would do in the same situation.
4345 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4346 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4348 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4350 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4351 permissions changed.
4352 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4353 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4354 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4355 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4356 files are treated identically.
4357 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4358 * Minor man page fixes.
4359 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4360 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4361 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4365 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4368 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4369 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4370 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4371 use -X multiple times, too.
4372 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4373 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4377 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4380 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4381 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4385 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4388 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4392 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4395 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4396 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4397 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4398 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4399 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4400 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4401 shape if you're starting a new package.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4405 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4408 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4412 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4415 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4416 because of missing symlinks.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4420 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4426 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4429 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4430 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4431 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4432 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4433 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4435 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4436 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4440 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4442 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4443 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4444 to be changed after the fact :-)
4445 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4449 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4452 no version string after the -V.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4456 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4458 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4459 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4464 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4467 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4471 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4474 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4475 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4476 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4477 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4478 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4479 I always welcome corrections!
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4483 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4489 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4492 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4493 * Documented this new switch.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4497 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4500 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4501 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4502 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4503 no packages use the old behavior.
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4507 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4510 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4511 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4515 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4518 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4522 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4528 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4531 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4535 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4538 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4539 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4540 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4544 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4550 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4553 into the source package by accident.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4557 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4560 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4561 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4562 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4563 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4564 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4565 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4570 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4574 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4575 inspired to implement some of it.
4576 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4580 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4583 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4587 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4590 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4591 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4595 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4598 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4599 have done.) (#17598)
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4603 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4609 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4615 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4618 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4622 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4625 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4626 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4630 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4633 argument processor in perl.
4634 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4635 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4636 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4637 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4641 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4644 type directories. (#16933)
4645 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4646 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4647 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4648 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4649 are supported. (#16935)
4650 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4655 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4658 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4662 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4666 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4667 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4668 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4669 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4670 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4671 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4675 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4678 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4679 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4681 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4682 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4683 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4684 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4685 a given package, or -i or -a.
4686 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4687 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4688 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4689 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4690 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4691 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4692 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4693 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4694 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4696 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4697 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4698 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4702 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4705 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4706 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4711 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4714 does not have a section.
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4718 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4721 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4722 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4723 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4727 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * Fixed typo #16215.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4733 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4736 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4737 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4738 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4739 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4740 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4745 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4748 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4749 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4750 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4755 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4761 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4767 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4770 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4771 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4772 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4773 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4774 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4775 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4779 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4785 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4788 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4792 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4795 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4796 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4797 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4801 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4804 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4808 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4814 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4817 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4821 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4824 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4828 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4834 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4837 postinst, postrm, etc.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4841 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4847 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4850 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4851 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4852 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4853 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4854 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4858 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4861 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4862 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4866 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4869 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4873 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4876 installing package files into.
4877 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4882 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4886 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4890 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4896 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4899 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4903 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4906 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4907 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4908 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4909 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4913 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4915 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4916 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4917 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4918 multiple binary packages.
4919 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4920 should rebuild them with this version.
4921 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4925 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4928 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4932 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4935 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4939 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4942 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4943 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4944 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4945 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4946 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4947 debian/README.debian.
4948 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4949 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4950 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4951 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4952 in a few situations.)
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4956 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4962 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4968 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4971 * Fixed several man pages.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4975 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4978 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4979 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4983 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4986 is ready for general use.
4987 * Added man pages for all commands.
4988 * Multiple binary package support.
4989 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4990 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4991 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4993 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4994 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4995 auto-installed as parameters.
4996 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4998 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5001 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5002 the package build directory it is to act on.
5003 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5004 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5005 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5009 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5011 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5012 ready to replace debstd.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400