1 debhelper (7.2.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
5 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:00:35 -0400
9 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
12 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
13 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
14 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
15 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
20 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
26 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
29 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
30 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
31 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
32 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
33 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
35 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
36 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
37 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
38 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
39 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
40 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
44 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
47 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
48 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
49 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
50 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
51 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
53 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
57 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
59 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
63 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
65 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
66 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
67 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
68 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
69 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
70 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
71 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
72 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
73 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
74 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
75 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
79 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
81 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
82 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
84 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
85 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
86 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
87 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
89 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
90 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
94 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
96 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
97 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
98 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
99 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
100 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
101 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
102 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
104 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
105 that uses them. Affected options are:
106 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
107 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
108 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
109 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
110 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
111 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
112 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
113 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
114 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
115 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
116 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
117 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
121 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
128 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
134 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
136 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
137 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
139 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
140 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
141 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
142 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
143 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
145 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
147 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
148 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
149 rules (see bug #509756).
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
153 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
159 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
160 * Typo. Closes: #493062
161 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
162 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
166 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
169 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
170 empty files. Closes: #490937
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
174 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
180 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
187 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
190 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
191 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
192 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
193 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
198 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
200 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
201 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
202 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
203 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
207 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
210 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
211 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
212 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
213 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
214 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
218 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
225 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
227 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
228 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
229 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
230 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
231 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
232 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
233 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
234 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
235 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
236 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
240 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
243 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
244 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
245 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
246 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
248 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
249 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
250 breaking backwards compatability.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
254 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
257 message in perl 5.10.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
261 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
267 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Convert copyright file to new format.
270 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
274 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
277 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
281 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
284 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
285 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
286 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
287 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
288 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
289 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
290 logging by dh_listpackages.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
294 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
297 run and there are no packages of that type.
298 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
299 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
300 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
301 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
303 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
304 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
308 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
310 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
311 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
312 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
316 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
319 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
320 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
322 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
323 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
324 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
325 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
326 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
327 planned but not yet implemented.)
328 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
329 if the Makefile has such a target.
330 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
331 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
332 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
333 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
334 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
335 but not yet implemented.)
336 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
337 recommended default, especially when using dh.
338 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
339 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
340 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
342 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
344 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
345 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
347 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
348 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
349 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
354 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
357 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
358 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
362 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
364 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
365 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
366 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
370 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
376 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
382 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
385 just those installed by the program.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
389 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
392 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
393 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
397 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
400 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
401 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
402 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
403 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
407 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
410 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
411 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
415 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
418 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
419 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
423 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
426 with policy. Closes: #461392
427 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
428 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
429 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
430 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
431 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
435 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
438 Closes: #460340, #460351
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
442 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
445 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
446 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
447 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
448 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
452 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
455 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
456 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
457 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
458 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
459 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
460 package build directory won't work.
461 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
462 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
463 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
464 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
465 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
466 mode. Closes: #459426
467 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
472 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
475 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
479 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
483 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
484 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
485 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
486 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
487 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
488 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
492 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
495 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
496 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
497 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
498 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
502 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
505 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
506 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
507 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
508 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
509 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
513 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
516 debian/package.triggers files.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
520 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
523 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
527 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
530 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
531 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
532 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
533 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
538 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
541 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
545 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
548 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
549 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
551 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
556 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
560 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
561 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
562 * Typo. Closes: #441272
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
566 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
573 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
580 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
583 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
585 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
586 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
587 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
589 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
590 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
591 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
595 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
598 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
599 * Update urls to web page.
600 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
602 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
603 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
607 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
610 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
611 - typo in alternatives call
612 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
614 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
615 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
619 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
622 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
627 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
633 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
639 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
642 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
644 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
645 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
646 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
647 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
648 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
649 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
650 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
651 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
652 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
653 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
654 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
658 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
661 package install. Closes: #415717
662 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
663 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
664 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
665 script and then remove the python files.
666 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
667 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
668 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
669 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
670 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
671 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
672 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
673 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
674 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
675 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
676 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
677 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
678 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
682 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Correct typo in french translation
688 * Typo. Closes: #400571
689 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
691 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
693 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
694 Closes: #406921, #381940
695 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
697 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
698 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
699 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
700 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
701 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
702 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
703 specified). Closes: #381851
704 * Misc minor changes.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
708 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
715 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
716 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
720 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
726 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
727 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
730 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
731 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
733 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
734 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
735 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
736 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
740 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
743 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
746 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
750 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
756 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
762 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
763 a difficult situation.
764 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
765 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
766 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
767 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
768 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
769 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
770 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
771 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
772 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
773 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
777 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Non-maintainer upload.
780 * Update of dh_python
781 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
782 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
784 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
785 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
786 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
787 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
788 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
790 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
792 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Non-maintainer upload.
795 * Update of dh_python
796 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
797 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
798 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
799 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
800 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
801 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
802 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
803 specific python version. Closes: #373853
804 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
805 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
807 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
808 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
809 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
810 the not too-distant future).
811 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
812 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
813 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
814 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
815 thus made the build fail.
817 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
819 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Non-maintainer upload.
822 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
824 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
826 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
829 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
830 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
831 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
832 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
833 package. Closes: #301424
834 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
835 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
836 fonts). Closes: #372686
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
840 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
846 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
847 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
848 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
849 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
850 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
851 above, but already depends on that.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
855 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
858 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
859 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
860 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
861 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
862 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
866 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
872 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
878 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
879 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
883 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
886 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
890 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
894 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
895 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
896 new version (0.24.1).
897 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
898 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
901 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
902 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
903 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
904 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
905 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
906 new directory on their own.
907 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
908 * Fix broken directory removal code.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
912 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
915 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
916 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
917 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
918 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
922 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
925 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
926 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
927 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
928 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
929 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
933 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
939 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Typo. Closes: #358904
943 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
944 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
948 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
949 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
953 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
955 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
956 || exit 0 instead of the intended
958 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
959 ignored. Closes: #337664
961 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
966 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
972 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
977 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
978 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
979 the dh_installdebconf manpage
980 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
981 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
982 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
983 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
987 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
990 version. Closes: #350607
991 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
992 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
993 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
994 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
998 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1001 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1002 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1003 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1007 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1014 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1020 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1023 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1027 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1030 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1031 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1032 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1033 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1034 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1035 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1039 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1042 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1043 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1048 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1051 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1055 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1058 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1062 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1065 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1066 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1067 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1068 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1069 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1070 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1074 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1078 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1079 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1080 link. Closes: #346405
1081 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1083 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1084 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1085 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1086 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1087 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1088 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1089 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1100 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1106 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1109 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1116 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1121 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1125 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1126 installed. Closes: #342033
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1130 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1133 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1134 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1135 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1140 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1146 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1152 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1156 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1157 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1158 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1162 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1165 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1170 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1177 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1183 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1186 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1187 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1188 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1189 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1190 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1191 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1192 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1194 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1198 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1201 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1202 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1206 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1209 in standard man dirs.
1210 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1214 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1223 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1228 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1235 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1242 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1245 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1246 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1250 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1253 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1254 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1255 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1257 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1259 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1265 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1271 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1274 mode. Closes: #324161
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1278 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1281 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1282 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1283 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1284 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1289 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1292 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1293 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1294 is necesary for sanity.
1295 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1296 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1301 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1303 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1304 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1308 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1311 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1315 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1321 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1324 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1325 released, so use at your own risk.
1326 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1327 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1329 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1330 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1331 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1332 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1333 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1334 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1335 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1336 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1337 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1338 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1339 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1340 including twice per config file line now..
1341 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1342 and simplfy the rules file.
1343 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1344 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1345 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1347 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1348 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1352 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1355 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1362 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1369 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1376 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1377 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1378 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1379 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1380 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1381 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1385 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1388 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1389 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1390 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1395 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1398 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1399 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1404 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1407 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1408 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1409 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1414 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1417 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1418 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1419 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1423 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1429 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1436 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1439 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1440 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1441 unknown. Closes: #282924
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1445 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1452 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Spanish man page updates.
1455 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1460 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1466 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1469 * dh_desktop: reindent
1470 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1471 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1475 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1481 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1483 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1487 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1489 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1493 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1496 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1497 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1501 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1507 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1520 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1523 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1530 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1531 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1532 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1533 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1534 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1535 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1537 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1538 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1539 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1540 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1541 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1542 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1543 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1544 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1545 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1546 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1547 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1548 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1549 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1550 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1551 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1552 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1556 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1563 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1566 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1570 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1573 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1577 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1580 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1584 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1587 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1591 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1597 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1603 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1609 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1612 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1613 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1614 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1618 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1621 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1625 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1628 but occasionally right and necessary.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1632 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1635 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1636 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1637 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1638 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1639 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1643 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1646 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1648 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1649 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1650 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1651 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1652 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1653 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1654 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1655 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1656 postinst scripts for udebs.
1657 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1661 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1664 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1666 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1667 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1671 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1677 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1684 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1691 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1694 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1698 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1701 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1705 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1708 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1711 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1712 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1716 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1722 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1725 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1729 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1732 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1733 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1734 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1736 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1738 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1739 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1740 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1744 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1747 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1752 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1755 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1756 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1757 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1762 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1768 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1774 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1777 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1778 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1779 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1780 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1781 associated -dbg packages.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1788 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1792 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1795 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1799 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1802 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1809 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1814 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1817 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1821 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1824 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1832 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1840 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1841 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1842 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1843 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1844 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1845 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1846 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1847 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1848 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1849 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1856 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1864 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1865 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1872 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1873 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1881 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1888 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1895 out section number. Closes: #204731
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1921 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1922 removal. Closes: #204286
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1929 renaming. Closes: #203548
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1936 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1937 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1953 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1959 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1962 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1963 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1964 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1971 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1972 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1992 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2000 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2007 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2009 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2010 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2017 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2025 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2037 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2044 it break hard links (see #188663).
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2048 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2051 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2061 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2065 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2066 debconf-mergetemplates
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2070 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2073 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2077 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2080 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2084 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2087 * Update debhelper(1).
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2091 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2094 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2095 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2096 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2097 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2098 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2102 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2105 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2106 the shell. Closes: #178524
2107 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2114 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2118 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2121 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2125 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2128 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2129 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2130 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2131 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2136 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2139 files from installation.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2146 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2147 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2151 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2154 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2158 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2161 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2165 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2177 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2181 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2182 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2184 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2188 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2191 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2192 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2193 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2194 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2198 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2201 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2208 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2209 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2213 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2217 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2232 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2233 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2234 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2242 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2243 practice. Closes: #163303
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2247 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2263 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2265 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2266 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2267 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2268 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2269 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2276 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2297 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2330 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2331 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2332 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2333 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2338 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2344 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2354 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2355 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2362 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2363 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2364 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2365 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2366 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2373 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2375 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2383 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2390 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2391 right thing. Closes: #150644
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Stupid, evil typo.
2398 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2412 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2413 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2427 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2434 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2435 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2443 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2456 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2457 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Removing perl warning message.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2476 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2477 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2478 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2479 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2480 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2481 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2482 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2483 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2503 debconf-mergetemplate.
2504 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2505 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2512 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2513 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2514 dh_install, which ...
2515 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2516 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2517 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2518 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2519 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2520 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2521 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2522 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2523 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2524 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2525 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2526 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2527 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2528 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2529 other minor changes.
2530 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2531 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2532 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2533 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2534 course there's -X ..)
2535 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2536 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2537 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2539 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2540 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2541 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2542 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2543 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2548 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2554 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2557 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2561 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2567 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2573 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2579 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2585 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2588 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2589 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2590 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2591 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2593 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2594 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2598 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2604 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2607 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2611 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2614 upset. Closes: #131322
2616 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2618 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2621 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2622 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2623 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2624 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2625 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2626 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2627 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2628 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2629 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2630 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2631 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2632 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2633 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2634 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2635 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2637 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2641 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2644 - Better indenting of generated code.
2645 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2649 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2653 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2654 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2655 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2656 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2657 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2658 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2659 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2663 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2666 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2670 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2673 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2674 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2675 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2676 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2677 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2678 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2679 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2680 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2681 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2682 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2683 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2684 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2685 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2686 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2687 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2692 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2698 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2701 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2702 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2706 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2709 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2710 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2714 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2720 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2723 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2724 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2725 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2726 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2727 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2732 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2738 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2741 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2745 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2748 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2753 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2759 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2762 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2776 Also some indentation fixes.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2780 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2783 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2784 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2785 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2786 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2787 Closes: #106514, #85520
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2791 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2797 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2803 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2809 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2815 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2821 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2824 change it in debhelper v4..
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2828 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2834 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2837 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2841 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2844 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2848 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2854 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2857 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2858 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2859 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2860 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2861 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2862 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2863 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2864 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2865 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2866 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2867 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2868 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2872 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2875 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2879 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2886 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2889 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2890 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2891 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2892 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2893 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2894 program those options go to. So, for example,
2895 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2896 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2897 something complex. Closes: #89311
2898 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2902 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2905 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2906 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2907 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2911 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2914 through loop. Closes: #98598
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2918 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Missing semi-colon.
2921 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2922 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2926 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2929 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2930 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2931 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2935 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2938 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2939 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2943 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2946 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2950 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2953 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2954 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2958 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2961 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2962 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2963 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2967 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2970 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2971 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2972 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2976 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2979 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2983 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2989 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2995 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3001 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3007 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3010 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3014 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3017 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3018 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3019 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3020 followed. Closes: #85483
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3024 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3026 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3027 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3028 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3032 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3035 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3036 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3037 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3038 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3039 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3040 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3041 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3042 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3043 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3044 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3045 Closes: #88464, #77743
3046 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3047 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3048 us to deal with that gracefully.
3049 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3051 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3052 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3053 a while, Closes: #51225
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3057 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3063 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3066 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3070 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3074 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3079 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3082 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3083 don't make packlist files.
3084 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3085 debhelper coding standards.
3086 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3087 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3091 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3094 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3098 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3101 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3102 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3103 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3104 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3105 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3106 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3107 but is mildly deprecated.
3108 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3109 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3110 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3111 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3112 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3113 switching to statoverrides..
3114 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3115 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3116 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3117 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3118 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3119 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3121 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3122 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3123 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3124 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3125 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3126 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3127 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3128 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3129 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3131 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3132 variable names, pod man pages).
3133 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3134 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3135 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3136 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3137 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3138 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3139 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3143 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3149 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3156 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3159 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3165 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3166 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3167 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3171 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3173 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3174 they were previously ignored.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3178 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3180 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3181 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3185 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3187 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3188 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3189 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3193 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3195 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3199 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3201 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3202 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3208 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3209 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3210 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3211 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3212 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3213 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3214 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3215 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3216 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3217 it is an obsolete program.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3221 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3223 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3227 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3231 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3233 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3237 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3239 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3241 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3243 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3253 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * typo: Closes, #78567
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3259 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3265 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3271 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3274 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3275 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3276 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3277 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3278 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3285 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3290 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3293 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3294 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3295 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3296 backwards-compatability.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3300 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3303 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3304 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3305 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3306 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3307 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3308 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3310 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3311 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3312 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3314 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3316 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3317 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3318 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3319 should now be raised to severity important..
3320 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3321 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3328 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3333 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3339 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3345 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3358 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3361 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3362 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3363 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3364 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3374 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3377 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3378 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3379 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3380 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3381 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3382 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3387 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3390 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3403 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3408 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3411 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3412 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3413 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3414 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3418 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3422 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3425 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3428 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3429 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3432 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3434 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3435 the TODO entry about it.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3439 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3446 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3449 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3450 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3454 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3457 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3458 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3459 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3460 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3464 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3477 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3480 (this appears to be logal).
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3484 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3487 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3488 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3489 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3490 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3503 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3504 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3505 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3506 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3510 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3516 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3519 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3530 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3533 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3534 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3535 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3540 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3553 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3556 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3557 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3558 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3559 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3560 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3561 notice until v2 is complete.
3562 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3563 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3564 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3565 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3566 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3567 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3569 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3570 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3571 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3572 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3576 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3582 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3592 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3606 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3607 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3608 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3609 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3614 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3617 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3618 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3619 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3627 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3628 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3635 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3642 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3656 depend on the build and install targets.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3660 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3663 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3680 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3686 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3689 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3690 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3691 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3692 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3693 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3694 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3696 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3697 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3698 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3699 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3700 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3701 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3702 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3706 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3712 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3718 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3721 right place. Closes: #55065
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3725 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3732 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3735 * Copyright date updates.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3742 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3766 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3772 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3778 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3781 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3782 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3783 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3784 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3785 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3786 bits until all files have been registered.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3790 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_installmanpages:
3793 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3794 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3795 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3796 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3797 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3798 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3799 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3800 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3801 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3802 otherwise change the result at all.
3804 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3805 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3806 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3807 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3808 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3819 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3822 act on files that don't exist.
3823 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3824 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3825 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3827 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3828 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3829 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3830 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3834 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3840 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3849 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3853 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3856 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3858 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3859 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3860 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3864 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3867 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3868 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3869 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3870 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3871 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3872 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3873 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3875 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3877 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3903 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3922 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3923 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3924 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3925 I made some changes, though:
3926 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3927 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3928 that is a clear violation of policy.
3929 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3930 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3931 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3932 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3933 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3934 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3935 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3936 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3937 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3939 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3952 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3959 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3960 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3981 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3982 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3983 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3984 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3985 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3986 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3987 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3997 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4001 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4002 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4015 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4022 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4023 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4027 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4029 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4038 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4045 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4046 for the dependancies to be generated.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4053 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4060 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4061 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4062 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4070 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4071 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4090 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4100 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4103 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4104 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4105 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4106 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4107 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4108 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4109 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4110 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4111 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4112 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4113 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4114 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4118 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4121 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4122 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4124 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4125 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4126 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4127 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4128 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4129 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4131 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4132 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4139 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4153 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4161 for building debhelper.
4162 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4176 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4183 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4184 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4185 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4186 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4187 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4188 it's always available.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4195 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4196 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4197 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4204 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4205 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4218 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4231 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4232 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4233 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4240 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4248 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4249 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4251 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4252 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4271 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4278 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4279 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4281 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4288 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4289 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4290 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4297 things if CDPATH is set.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4310 seems to make sense for the transition.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4317 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4325 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4326 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4333 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4340 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4341 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4342 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4343 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4356 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4357 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4358 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4359 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4360 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4361 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4362 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4363 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4364 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4365 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4370 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4373 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4374 * README: mention doc/v2
4375 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4376 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4380 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4382 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4383 be using this script RSN.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4387 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4390 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4391 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4392 more than 1 init script.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4396 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4399 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4403 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * Changed perl version detection.
4406 * Changed call to find.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4410 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4413 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4415 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4420 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Really include dh_installpam.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4426 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4429 * Wrote man page for same.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4433 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4436 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4437 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4442 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4449 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4452 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4453 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4454 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4455 x bit was being set!
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4462 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4463 well. (Closes: 38900)
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4467 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4470 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4471 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4475 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4481 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4488 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4494 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4497 help from Julian Gilbey.
4498 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4499 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4500 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4501 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4502 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4503 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4504 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4509 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4515 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4522 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4528 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4534 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4537 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4544 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4548 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4551 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4555 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4561 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4564 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4568 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4580 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4583 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4584 may be deleted. (#35845)
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4588 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Various man page enhancements.
4591 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4596 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4599 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4600 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4607 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4608 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4609 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4611 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4612 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4617 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4623 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Another very minor typo fix.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4629 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * Very minor typo fix.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4635 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4638 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4639 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4643 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4649 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4652 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4653 variables properly (#34850).
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4663 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4666 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4667 (automatically generated by build process).
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4671 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4673 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4677 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4680 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4681 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4683 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4687 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4690 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * README: minor typo fix.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4703 leave it at that. :-)
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4707 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4713 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4719 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4722 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4723 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4724 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4728 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4731 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4735 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4738 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4742 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4745 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4746 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4747 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4748 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4755 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4756 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4757 Craig Small for spotting this.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4761 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4764 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4765 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4769 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4775 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4778 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4784 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4785 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4786 working on the last version of debhelper.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4790 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4793 being made. (#23255)
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4803 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4806 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4813 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4814 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4815 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4816 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4820 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4823 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4824 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4825 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4826 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4828 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4829 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4831 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4836 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4842 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4848 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4851 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4852 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4853 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4854 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4855 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4856 suidregister actually supports it.
4857 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4858 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4862 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4869 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4872 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4873 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4874 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4875 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4876 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4877 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4878 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4882 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4884 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4885 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4892 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4893 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4894 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4895 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4899 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4902 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4904 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4905 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4906 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4907 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4908 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4909 effect, either. (#30118)
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4913 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4919 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4922 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4923 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4933 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4936 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4937 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4938 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4939 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4943 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4946 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4947 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4957 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4960 packages, painlessly.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4964 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4970 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4976 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4982 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * The perl conversion is complete.
4986 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4988 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4989 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4990 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4995 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4998 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4999 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5000 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5004 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5007 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5009 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5011 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5012 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5019 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5020 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5024 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5033 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5034 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5035 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5036 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5037 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5041 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5044 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5045 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5046 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5047 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5051 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5054 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5058 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5061 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5062 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5063 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5064 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5065 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5066 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5067 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5068 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5072 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5081 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5082 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5083 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5091 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5095 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5098 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5102 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5105 sections of shared libraries.
5106 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5107 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5108 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5109 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5110 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5111 things you don't want them to.
5112 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5113 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5120 shared libraries. (#26414)
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5126 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5127 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5128 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5129 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5133 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5137 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5139 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5140 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5141 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5142 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5143 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5150 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5157 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5158 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5166 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5173 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5174 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5175 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5176 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5177 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5179 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5180 remove debian/files properly.
5181 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5182 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5183 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5184 * Removed bogus menu file.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5191 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5198 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5199 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5200 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5201 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5202 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5203 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5207 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5210 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5211 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5212 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5213 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5224 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5227 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5228 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5230 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5231 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5232 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5233 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5234 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5235 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5239 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5242 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5243 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5244 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5245 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5246 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5247 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5248 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5249 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5250 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5251 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5252 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5253 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5254 passed any switches.
5255 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5259 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5262 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5263 at all for a long while.
5264 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5265 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5266 large chunks in the process.
5267 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5268 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5269 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5277 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5279 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5284 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5287 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5288 that don't always have the same files in them.
5289 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5290 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5291 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5299 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5300 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5301 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5302 updating 27 man pages.
5303 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5304 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5305 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5306 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5307 programs act on. (#25247)
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5311 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5315 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5316 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5317 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5318 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5319 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5320 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5325 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5332 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5339 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5342 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5346 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5352 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5355 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5356 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5357 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5358 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5359 package by accident.
5360 * Is version 1.0 next?
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5364 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5367 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5368 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5372 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5375 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5376 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5377 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5378 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5379 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5381 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5386 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5389 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5390 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5394 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5397 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5401 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5404 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5405 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5410 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5416 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5419 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5420 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5425 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5431 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5434 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5435 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5436 past week. Thanks, guys!
5438 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5439 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5440 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5441 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5442 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5443 would do in the same situation.
5444 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5445 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5447 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5449 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5450 permissions changed.
5451 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5452 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5453 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5454 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5455 files are treated identically.
5456 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5457 * Minor man page fixes.
5458 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5459 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5460 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5464 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5467 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5468 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5469 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5470 use -X multiple times, too.
5471 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5472 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5476 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5479 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5480 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5484 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5487 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5491 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5494 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5495 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5496 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5497 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5498 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5499 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5500 shape if you're starting a new package.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5504 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5507 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5511 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5514 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5515 because of missing symlinks.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5519 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5525 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5528 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5529 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5530 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5531 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5532 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5534 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5535 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5539 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5541 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5542 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5543 to be changed after the fact :-)
5544 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5548 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5550 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5551 no version string after the -V.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5555 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5557 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5558 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5563 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5566 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5570 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5573 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5574 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5575 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5576 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5577 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5578 I always welcome corrections!
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5582 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5588 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5591 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5592 * Documented this new switch.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5596 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5599 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5600 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5601 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5602 no packages use the old behavior.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5606 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5609 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5610 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5614 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5617 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5621 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5627 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5630 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5637 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5638 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5639 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5643 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5649 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5652 into the source package by accident.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5656 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5659 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5660 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5661 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5662 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5663 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5664 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5669 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5673 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5674 inspired to implement some of it.
5675 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5679 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5682 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5686 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5689 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5690 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5694 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5697 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5698 have done.) (#17598)
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5702 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5708 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5714 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5717 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5721 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5724 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5725 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5729 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5732 argument processor in perl.
5733 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5734 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5735 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5736 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5740 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5743 type directories. (#16933)
5744 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5745 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5746 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5747 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5748 are supported. (#16935)
5749 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5754 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5757 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5761 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5765 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5766 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5767 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5768 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5769 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5770 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5774 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5777 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5778 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5780 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5781 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5782 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5783 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5784 a given package, or -i or -a.
5785 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5786 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5787 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5788 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5789 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5790 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5791 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5792 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5793 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5795 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5796 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5797 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5801 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5804 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5805 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5810 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5813 does not have a section.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5817 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5820 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5821 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5822 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5826 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * Fixed typo #16215.
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5832 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5835 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5836 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5837 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5838 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5839 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5844 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5847 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5848 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5849 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5854 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5860 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5866 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5869 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5870 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5871 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5872 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5873 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5874 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5878 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5884 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5887 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5891 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5894 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5895 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5896 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5900 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5903 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5907 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5913 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5916 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5920 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5923 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5927 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5933 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5936 postinst, postrm, etc.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5940 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5946 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5949 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5950 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5951 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5952 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5953 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5957 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5960 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5961 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5965 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5968 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5972 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5975 installing package files into.
5976 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5981 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5985 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5989 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5995 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5998 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6002 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6005 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6006 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6007 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6008 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6012 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6014 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6015 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6016 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6017 multiple binary packages.
6018 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6019 should rebuild them with this version.
6020 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6024 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6027 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6031 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6034 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6038 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6041 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6042 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6043 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6044 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6045 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6046 debian/README.debian.
6047 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6048 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6049 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6050 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6051 in a few situations.)
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6055 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6061 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6067 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6070 * Fixed several man pages.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6074 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6077 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6078 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6082 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6085 is ready for general use.
6086 * Added man pages for all commands.
6087 * Multiple binary package support.
6088 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6089 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6090 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6092 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6093 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6094 auto-installed as parameters.
6095 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6097 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6100 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6101 the package build directory it is to act on.
6102 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6103 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6104 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6108 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6110 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6111 ready to replace debstd.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400