1 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
7 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
10 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
11 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
12 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
13 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
15 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
16 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
17 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
21 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
27 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
34 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
37 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
41 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
45 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
46 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
48 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
49 file support. Closes: #494914
50 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
54 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
57 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
58 parameters. Closes: #527256
59 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
60 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
61 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
65 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
69 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
70 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
71 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
75 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
78 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
79 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
80 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
84 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
87 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
88 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
90 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
91 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
92 by triggers). Closes: #521181
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
96 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
100 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
104 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
107 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
108 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
109 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
110 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
115 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
121 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
124 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
125 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
126 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
127 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
128 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
130 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
131 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
132 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
133 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
134 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
135 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
139 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
142 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
143 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
144 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
145 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
146 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
148 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
152 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
154 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
158 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
160 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
161 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
162 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
163 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
164 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
165 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
166 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
167 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
168 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
169 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
170 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
174 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
176 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
177 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
179 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
180 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
181 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
182 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
184 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
185 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
189 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
191 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
192 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
193 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
194 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
195 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
196 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
197 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
199 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
200 that uses them. Affected options are:
201 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
202 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
203 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
204 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
205 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
206 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
207 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
208 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
209 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
210 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
211 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
212 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
216 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
223 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
229 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
231 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
232 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
234 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
235 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
236 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
237 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
238 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
240 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
242 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
243 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
244 rules (see bug #509756).
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
248 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
254 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
255 * Typo. Closes: #493062
256 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
257 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
261 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
264 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
265 empty files. Closes: #490937
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
269 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
275 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
282 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
285 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
286 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
287 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
288 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
293 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
295 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
296 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
297 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
298 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
302 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
305 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
306 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
307 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
308 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
309 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
313 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
320 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
322 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
323 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
324 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
325 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
326 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
327 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
328 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
329 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
330 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
331 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
335 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
338 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
339 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
340 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
341 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
343 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
344 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
345 breaking backwards compatability.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
349 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
352 message in perl 5.10.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
356 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
362 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Convert copyright file to new format.
365 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
369 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
372 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
376 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
379 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
380 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
381 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
382 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
383 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
384 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
385 logging by dh_listpackages.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
389 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
392 run and there are no packages of that type.
393 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
394 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
395 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
396 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
398 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
399 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
403 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
405 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
406 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
407 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
411 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
414 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
415 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
417 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
418 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
419 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
420 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
421 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
422 planned but not yet implemented.)
423 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
424 if the Makefile has such a target.
425 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
426 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
427 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
428 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
429 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
430 but not yet implemented.)
431 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
432 recommended default, especially when using dh.
433 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
434 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
435 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
437 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
439 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
440 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
442 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
443 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
444 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
449 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
452 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
453 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
457 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
459 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
460 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
461 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
465 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
471 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
477 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
480 just those installed by the program.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
484 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
487 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
488 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
492 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
495 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
496 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
497 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
498 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
502 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
505 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
506 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
510 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
513 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
514 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
518 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
521 with policy. Closes: #461392
522 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
523 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
524 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
525 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
526 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
530 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
533 Closes: #460340, #460351
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
537 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
540 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
541 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
542 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
543 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
547 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
550 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
551 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
552 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
553 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
554 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
555 package build directory won't work.
556 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
557 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
558 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
559 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
560 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
561 mode. Closes: #459426
562 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
567 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
570 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
574 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
578 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
579 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
580 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
581 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
582 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
583 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
587 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
590 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
591 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
592 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
593 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
597 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
600 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
601 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
602 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
603 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
604 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
608 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
611 debian/package.triggers files.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
615 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
618 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
622 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
625 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
626 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
627 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
628 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
633 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
636 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
640 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
643 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
644 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
646 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
651 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
655 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
656 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
657 * Typo. Closes: #441272
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
661 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
668 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
675 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
678 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
680 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
681 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
682 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
684 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
685 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
686 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
690 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
693 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
694 * Update urls to web page.
695 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
697 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
698 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
702 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
705 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
706 - typo in alternatives call
707 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
709 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
710 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
714 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
717 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
722 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
728 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
734 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
737 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
739 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
740 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
741 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
742 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
743 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
744 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
745 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
746 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
747 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
748 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
749 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
753 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
756 package install. Closes: #415717
757 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
758 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
759 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
760 script and then remove the python files.
761 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
762 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
763 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
764 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
765 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
766 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
767 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
768 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
769 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
770 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
771 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
772 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
773 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
777 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Correct typo in french translation
783 * Typo. Closes: #400571
784 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
786 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
788 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
789 Closes: #406921, #381940
790 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
792 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
793 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
794 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
795 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
796 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
797 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
798 specified). Closes: #381851
799 * Misc minor changes.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
803 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
810 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
811 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
815 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
821 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
822 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
825 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
826 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
828 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
829 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
830 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
831 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
835 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
838 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
841 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
845 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
851 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
857 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
858 a difficult situation.
859 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
860 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
861 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
862 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
863 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
864 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
865 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
866 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
867 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
868 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
872 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Non-maintainer upload.
875 * Update of dh_python
876 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
877 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
879 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
880 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
881 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
882 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
883 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
885 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
887 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Non-maintainer upload.
890 * Update of dh_python
891 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
892 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
893 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
894 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
895 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
896 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
897 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
898 specific python version. Closes: #373853
899 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
900 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
902 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
903 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
904 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
905 the not too-distant future).
906 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
907 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
908 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
909 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
910 thus made the build fail.
912 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
914 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Non-maintainer upload.
917 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
919 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
921 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
924 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
925 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
926 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
927 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
928 package. Closes: #301424
929 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
930 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
931 fonts). Closes: #372686
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
935 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
941 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
942 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
943 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
944 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
945 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
946 above, but already depends on that.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
950 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
953 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
954 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
955 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
956 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
957 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
961 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
967 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
973 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
974 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
978 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
981 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
985 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
989 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
990 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
991 new version (0.24.1).
992 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
993 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
996 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
997 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
998 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
999 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1000 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1001 new directory on their own.
1002 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1003 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1007 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1010 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1011 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1012 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1013 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1017 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1020 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1021 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1022 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1023 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1024 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1028 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1034 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1038 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1039 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1043 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1044 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1048 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1050 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1051 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1053 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1054 ignored. Closes: #337664
1056 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1061 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1067 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1072 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1073 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1074 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1075 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1076 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1077 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1078 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1082 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1085 version. Closes: #350607
1086 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1087 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1088 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1089 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1096 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1097 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1098 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1109 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1115 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1118 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1122 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1125 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1126 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1127 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1128 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1129 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1130 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1134 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1137 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1138 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1143 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1146 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1150 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1153 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1157 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1160 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1161 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1162 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1163 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1164 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1165 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1169 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1173 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1174 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1175 link. Closes: #346405
1176 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1178 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1179 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1180 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1181 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1182 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1183 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1184 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1195 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1201 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1204 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1208 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1211 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1216 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1220 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1221 installed. Closes: #342033
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1225 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1228 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1229 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1230 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1235 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1241 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1247 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1251 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1252 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1253 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1257 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1260 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1265 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1272 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1278 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1281 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1282 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1283 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1284 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1285 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1286 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1287 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1289 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1293 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1296 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1297 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1301 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1304 in standard man dirs.
1305 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1309 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1315 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1318 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1337 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1340 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1341 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1345 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1348 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1349 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1350 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1352 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1354 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1360 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1369 mode. Closes: #324161
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1376 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1377 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1378 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1379 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1384 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1387 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1388 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1389 is necesary for sanity.
1390 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1391 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1398 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1399 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1403 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1406 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1416 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1419 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1420 released, so use at your own risk.
1421 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1422 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1424 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1425 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1426 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1427 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1428 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1429 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1430 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1431 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1432 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1433 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1434 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1435 including twice per config file line now..
1436 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1437 and simplfy the rules file.
1438 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1439 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1440 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1442 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1443 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1447 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1450 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1454 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1457 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1461 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1464 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1468 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1471 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1472 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1473 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1474 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1475 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1476 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1480 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1483 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1484 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1485 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1490 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1493 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1494 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1499 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1502 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1503 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1504 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1509 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1512 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1513 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1514 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1518 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1524 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1531 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1534 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1535 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1536 unknown. Closes: #282924
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1540 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1547 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Spanish man page updates.
1550 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1555 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1561 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1564 * dh_desktop: reindent
1565 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1566 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1570 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1578 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1584 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1588 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1591 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1592 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1596 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1615 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1618 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1622 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1625 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1626 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1627 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1628 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1629 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1630 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1632 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1633 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1634 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1635 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1636 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1637 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1638 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1639 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1640 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1641 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1642 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1643 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1644 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1645 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1646 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1647 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1651 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1658 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1661 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1665 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1668 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1672 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1675 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1679 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1682 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1686 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1692 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1698 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1704 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1707 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1708 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1709 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1713 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1716 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1720 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1723 but occasionally right and necessary.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1727 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1730 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1731 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1732 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1733 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1734 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1738 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1741 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1743 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1744 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1745 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1746 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1747 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1748 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1749 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1750 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1751 postinst scripts for udebs.
1752 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1756 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1759 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1761 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1762 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1766 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1772 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1779 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1786 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1789 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1793 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1796 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1800 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1803 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1806 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1807 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1811 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1817 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1820 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1824 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1827 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1828 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1829 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1831 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1833 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1834 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1835 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1839 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1842 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1847 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1850 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1851 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1852 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1857 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1863 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1872 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1873 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1874 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1875 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1876 associated -dbg packages.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1880 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1883 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1890 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1897 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1904 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1912 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1919 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1924 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1927 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1935 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1936 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1937 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1938 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1939 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1940 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1941 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1942 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1943 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1944 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1951 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1956 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1959 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1960 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1967 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1968 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1976 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1983 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1990 out section number. Closes: #204731
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2016 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2017 removal. Closes: #204286
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2024 renaming. Closes: #203548
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2031 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2032 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2048 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2054 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2057 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2058 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2059 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2066 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2067 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2077 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2087 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2095 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2102 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2104 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2105 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2112 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2120 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2132 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2136 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2139 it break hard links (see #188663).
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2146 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2156 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2160 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2161 debconf-mergetemplates
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2165 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2168 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2172 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2175 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2179 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2182 * Update debhelper(1).
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2189 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2190 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2191 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2192 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2193 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2197 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2200 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2201 the shell. Closes: #178524
2202 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2206 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2209 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2213 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2216 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2223 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2224 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2225 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2226 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2231 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2234 files from installation.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2241 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2242 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2249 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2253 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2256 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2260 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2272 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2276 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2277 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2279 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2283 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2286 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2287 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2288 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2289 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2293 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2296 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2303 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2304 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2308 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2312 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2317 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2323 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2327 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2328 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2329 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2337 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2338 practice. Closes: #163303
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2358 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2360 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2361 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2362 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2363 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2364 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2371 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2392 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2425 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2426 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2427 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2428 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2449 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2450 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2457 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2458 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2459 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2460 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2461 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2465 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2468 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2470 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2478 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2485 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2486 right thing. Closes: #150644
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Stupid, evil typo.
2493 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2497 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2507 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2508 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2522 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2529 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2530 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2538 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2551 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2552 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Removing perl warning message.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2571 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2572 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2573 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2574 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2575 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2576 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2577 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2578 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2582 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2598 debconf-mergetemplate.
2599 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2600 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2607 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2608 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2609 dh_install, which ...
2610 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2611 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2612 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2613 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2614 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2615 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2616 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2617 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2618 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2619 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2620 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2621 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2622 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2623 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2624 other minor changes.
2625 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2626 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2627 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2628 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2629 course there's -X ..)
2630 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2631 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2632 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2634 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2635 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2636 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2637 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2638 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2643 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2649 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2652 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2656 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2662 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2668 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2674 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2680 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2683 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2684 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2685 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2686 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2688 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2689 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2693 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2699 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2702 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2706 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2709 upset. Closes: #131322
2711 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2713 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2716 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2717 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2718 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2719 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2720 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2721 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2722 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2723 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2724 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2725 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2726 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2727 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2728 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2729 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2730 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2732 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2736 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2739 - Better indenting of generated code.
2740 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2744 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2748 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2749 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2750 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2751 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2752 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2753 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2754 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2758 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2761 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2765 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2768 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2769 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2770 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2771 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2772 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2773 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2774 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2775 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2776 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2777 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2778 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2779 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2780 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2781 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2782 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2787 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2793 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2796 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2797 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2801 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2804 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2805 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2809 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2815 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2818 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2819 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2820 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2821 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2822 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2827 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2833 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2836 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2840 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2843 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2848 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2854 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2857 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2861 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2867 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2871 Also some indentation fixes.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2875 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2878 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2879 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2880 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2881 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2882 Closes: #106514, #85520
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2886 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2892 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2898 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2904 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2910 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2916 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2919 change it in debhelper v4..
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2923 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2929 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2932 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2936 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2939 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2943 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2949 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2952 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2953 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2954 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2955 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2956 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2957 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2958 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2959 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2960 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2961 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2962 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2963 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2967 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2970 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2974 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2981 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2984 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2985 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2986 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2987 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2988 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2989 program those options go to. So, for example,
2990 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2991 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2992 something complex. Closes: #89311
2993 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2997 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3000 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3001 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3002 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3006 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3009 through loop. Closes: #98598
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3013 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Missing semi-colon.
3016 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3017 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3021 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3024 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3025 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3026 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3030 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3033 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3034 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3038 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3041 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3045 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3048 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3049 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3053 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3056 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3057 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3058 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3062 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3065 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3066 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3067 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3071 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3074 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3078 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3084 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3090 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3096 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3102 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3105 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3109 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3112 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3113 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3114 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3115 followed. Closes: #85483
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3119 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3121 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3122 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3123 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3127 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3130 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3131 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3132 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3133 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3134 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3135 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3136 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3137 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3138 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3139 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3140 Closes: #88464, #77743
3141 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3142 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3143 us to deal with that gracefully.
3144 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3146 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3147 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3148 a while, Closes: #51225
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3152 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3158 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3161 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3165 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3169 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3174 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3177 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3178 don't make packlist files.
3179 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3180 debhelper coding standards.
3181 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3182 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3186 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3189 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3193 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3196 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3197 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3198 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3199 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3200 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3201 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3202 but is mildly deprecated.
3203 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3204 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3205 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3206 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3207 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3208 switching to statoverrides..
3209 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3210 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3211 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3212 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3213 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3214 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3216 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3217 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3218 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3219 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3220 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3221 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3222 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3223 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3224 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3226 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3227 variable names, pod man pages).
3228 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3229 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3230 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3231 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3232 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3233 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3234 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3238 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3244 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3251 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3254 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3258 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3260 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3261 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3262 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3266 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3268 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3269 they were previously ignored.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3273 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3275 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3276 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3280 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3282 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3283 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3284 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3290 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3294 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3296 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3297 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3301 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3303 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3304 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3305 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3306 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3307 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3308 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3309 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3310 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3311 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3312 it is an obsolete program.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3316 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3318 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3322 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3326 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3328 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3332 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3334 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3336 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3338 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3342 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3348 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * typo: Closes, #78567
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3354 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3360 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3366 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3369 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3370 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3371 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3372 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3373 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3377 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3380 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3385 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3388 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3389 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3390 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3391 backwards-compatability.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3395 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3398 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3399 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3400 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3401 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3402 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3403 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3405 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3406 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3407 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3409 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3411 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3412 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3413 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3414 should now be raised to severity important..
3415 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3416 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3423 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3428 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3434 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3440 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3446 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3456 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3457 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3458 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3459 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3463 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3469 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3472 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3473 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3474 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3475 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3476 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3477 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3482 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3485 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3489 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3495 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3498 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3503 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3506 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3507 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3508 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3509 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3517 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3520 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3523 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3524 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3527 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3529 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3530 the TODO entry about it.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3534 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3541 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3544 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3545 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3552 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3553 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3554 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3555 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3559 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3565 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3572 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3575 (this appears to be logal).
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3582 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3583 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3584 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3585 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3598 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3599 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3600 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3601 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3611 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3614 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3618 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3628 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3629 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3630 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3635 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3642 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3648 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3651 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3652 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3653 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3654 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3655 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3656 notice until v2 is complete.
3657 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3658 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3659 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3660 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3661 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3662 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3664 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3665 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3666 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3667 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3677 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3687 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3701 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3702 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3703 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3704 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3709 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3712 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3713 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3714 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3722 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3723 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3730 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3734 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3737 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3748 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3751 depend on the build and install targets.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3755 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3758 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3762 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3769 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3775 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3784 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3785 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3786 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3787 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3788 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3789 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3791 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3792 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3793 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3794 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3795 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3796 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3797 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3816 right place. Closes: #55065
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3820 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3830 * Copyright date updates.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3834 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3837 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3848 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3855 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3861 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3876 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3877 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3878 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3879 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3880 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3881 bits until all files have been registered.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_installmanpages:
3888 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3889 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3890 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3891 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3892 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3893 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3894 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3895 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3896 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3897 otherwise change the result at all.
3899 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3900 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3901 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3902 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3903 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3917 act on files that don't exist.
3918 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3919 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3920 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3922 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3923 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3924 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3925 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3929 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3944 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3951 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3953 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3954 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3955 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3959 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3962 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3963 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3964 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3965 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3966 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3967 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3968 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3970 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3972 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3976 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3983 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3998 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4002 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4008 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4017 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4018 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4019 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4020 I made some changes, though:
4021 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4022 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4023 that is a clear violation of policy.
4024 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4025 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4026 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4027 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4028 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4029 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4030 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4031 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4032 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4034 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4047 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4054 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4055 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4066 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4073 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4076 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4077 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4078 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4079 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4080 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4081 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4082 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4096 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4097 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4110 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4117 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4118 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4124 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4129 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4133 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4140 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4141 for the dependancies to be generated.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4148 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4155 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4156 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4157 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4165 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4166 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4185 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4198 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4199 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4200 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4201 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4202 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4203 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4204 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4205 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4206 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4207 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4208 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4209 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4216 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4217 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4219 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4220 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4221 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4222 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4223 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4224 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4226 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4227 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4231 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4234 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4248 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4256 for building debhelper.
4257 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4271 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4278 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4279 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4280 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4281 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4282 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4283 it's always available.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4290 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4291 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4292 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4299 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4300 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4313 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4326 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4327 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4328 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4335 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4343 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4344 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4346 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4347 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4366 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4373 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4374 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4376 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4383 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4384 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4385 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4392 things if CDPATH is set.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4396 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4405 seems to make sense for the transition.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4409 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4412 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4420 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4421 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4428 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4432 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4435 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4436 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4437 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4438 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4451 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4452 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4453 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4454 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4455 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4456 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4457 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4458 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4459 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4460 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4465 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4468 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4469 * README: mention doc/v2
4470 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4471 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4475 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4477 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4478 be using this script RSN.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4482 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4485 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4486 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4487 more than 1 init script.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4491 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4494 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Changed perl version detection.
4501 * Changed call to find.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4505 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4508 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4510 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4515 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Really include dh_installpam.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4521 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4524 * Wrote man page for same.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4528 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4531 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4532 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4537 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4544 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4547 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4548 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4549 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4550 x bit was being set!
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4554 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4557 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4558 well. (Closes: 38900)
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4562 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4565 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4566 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4570 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4583 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4589 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4592 help from Julian Gilbey.
4593 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4594 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4595 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4596 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4597 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4598 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4599 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4610 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4617 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4623 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4629 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4632 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4636 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4639 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4646 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4650 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4656 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4659 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4663 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4675 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4678 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4679 may be deleted. (#35845)
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4683 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * Various man page enhancements.
4686 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4691 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4694 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4695 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4699 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4702 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4703 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4704 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4706 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4707 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4712 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4718 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Another very minor typo fix.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4724 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Very minor typo fix.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4730 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4733 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4734 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4738 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4747 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4748 variables properly (#34850).
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4758 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4761 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4762 (automatically generated by build process).
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4766 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4768 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4772 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4775 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4776 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4778 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4785 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4789 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * README: minor typo fix.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4795 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4798 leave it at that. :-)
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4802 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4808 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4814 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4817 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4818 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4819 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4826 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4833 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4840 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4841 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4842 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4843 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4847 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4850 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4851 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4852 Craig Small for spotting this.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4856 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4859 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4860 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4870 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4873 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4877 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4879 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4880 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4881 working on the last version of debhelper.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4885 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4888 being made. (#23255)
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4892 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4898 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4901 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4905 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4908 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4909 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4910 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4911 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4915 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4918 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4919 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4920 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4921 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4923 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4924 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4926 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4931 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4937 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4943 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4946 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4947 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4948 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4949 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4950 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4951 suidregister actually supports it.
4952 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4953 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4957 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4964 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4967 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4968 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4969 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4970 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4971 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4972 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4973 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4977 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4979 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4980 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4984 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4987 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4988 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4989 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4990 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4994 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4997 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4999 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5000 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5001 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5002 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5003 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5004 effect, either. (#30118)
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5008 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5014 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5017 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5018 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5022 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5028 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5031 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5032 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5033 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5034 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5038 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5041 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5042 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5046 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5052 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5055 packages, painlessly.
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5059 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5065 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5071 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5077 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * The perl conversion is complete.
5081 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5083 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5084 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5085 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5090 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5093 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5094 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5095 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5099 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5102 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5104 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5106 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5107 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5111 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5114 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5115 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5119 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5125 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5128 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5129 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5130 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5131 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5132 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5136 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5139 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5140 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5141 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5142 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5146 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5149 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5153 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5156 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5157 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5158 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5159 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5160 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5161 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5162 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5163 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5167 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5173 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5176 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5177 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5178 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5183 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5186 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5193 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5200 sections of shared libraries.
5201 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5202 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5203 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5204 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5205 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5206 things you don't want them to.
5207 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5208 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5215 shared libraries. (#26414)
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5221 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5222 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5223 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5224 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5232 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5234 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5235 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5236 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5237 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5238 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5245 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5252 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5253 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5258 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5261 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5265 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5268 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5269 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5270 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5271 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5272 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5274 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5275 remove debian/files properly.
5276 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5277 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5278 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5279 * Removed bogus menu file.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5283 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5286 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5293 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5294 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5295 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5296 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5297 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5298 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5302 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5305 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5306 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5307 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5308 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5312 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5322 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5323 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5325 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5326 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5327 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5328 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5329 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5330 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5337 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5338 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5339 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5340 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5341 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5342 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5343 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5344 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5345 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5346 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5347 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5348 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5349 passed any switches.
5350 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5354 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5357 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5358 at all for a long while.
5359 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5360 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5361 large chunks in the process.
5362 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5363 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5364 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5369 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5372 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5374 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5379 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5382 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5383 that don't always have the same files in them.
5384 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5385 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5386 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5390 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5394 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5395 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5396 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5397 updating 27 man pages.
5398 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5399 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5400 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5401 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5402 programs act on. (#25247)
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5406 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5410 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5411 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5412 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5413 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5414 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5415 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5420 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5427 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5434 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5437 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5441 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5447 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5450 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5451 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5452 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5453 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5454 package by accident.
5455 * Is version 1.0 next?
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5459 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5462 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5463 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5467 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5470 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5471 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5472 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5473 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5474 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5476 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5481 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5484 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5485 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5489 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5492 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5496 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5499 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5500 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5505 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5511 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5514 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5515 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5520 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5526 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5529 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5530 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5531 past week. Thanks, guys!
5533 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5534 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5535 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5536 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5537 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5538 would do in the same situation.
5539 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5540 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5542 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5544 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5545 permissions changed.
5546 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5547 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5548 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5549 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5550 files are treated identically.
5551 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5552 * Minor man page fixes.
5553 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5554 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5555 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5559 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5562 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5563 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5564 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5565 use -X multiple times, too.
5566 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5567 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5571 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5574 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5575 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5579 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5582 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5586 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5589 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5590 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5591 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5592 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5593 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5594 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5595 shape if you're starting a new package.
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5599 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5602 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5606 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5609 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5610 because of missing symlinks.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5614 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5620 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5623 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5624 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5625 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5626 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5627 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5629 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5630 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5636 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5637 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5638 to be changed after the fact :-)
5639 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5643 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5645 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5646 no version string after the -V.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5650 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5652 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5653 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5658 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5661 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5665 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5668 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5669 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5670 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5671 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5672 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5673 I always welcome corrections!
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5677 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5683 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5686 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5687 * Documented this new switch.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5691 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5694 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5695 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5696 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5697 no packages use the old behavior.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5701 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5704 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5705 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5709 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5712 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5716 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5722 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5725 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5729 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5732 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5733 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5734 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5738 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5744 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5747 into the source package by accident.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5751 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5754 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5755 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5756 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5757 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5758 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5759 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5764 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5768 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5769 inspired to implement some of it.
5770 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5774 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5777 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5781 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5784 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5785 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5789 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5792 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5793 have done.) (#17598)
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5797 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5803 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5809 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5812 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5816 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5819 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5820 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5824 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5827 argument processor in perl.
5828 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5829 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5830 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5831 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5835 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5838 type directories. (#16933)
5839 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5840 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5841 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5842 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5843 are supported. (#16935)
5844 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5849 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5852 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5856 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5860 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5861 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5862 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5863 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5864 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5865 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5869 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5872 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5873 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5875 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5876 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5877 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5878 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5879 a given package, or -i or -a.
5880 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5881 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5882 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5883 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5884 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5885 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5886 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5887 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5888 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5890 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5891 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5892 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5899 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5900 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5905 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5908 does not have a section.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5912 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5915 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5916 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5917 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5921 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * Fixed typo #16215.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5927 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5930 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5931 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5932 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5933 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5934 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5939 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5942 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5943 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5944 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5949 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5955 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5961 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5964 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5965 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5966 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5967 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5968 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5969 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5973 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5979 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5982 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5986 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5989 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5990 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5991 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5995 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5998 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6002 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6008 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6011 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6015 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6018 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6022 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6028 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6031 postinst, postrm, etc.
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6035 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6041 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6044 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6045 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6046 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6047 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6048 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6052 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6055 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6056 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6060 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6063 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6067 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6070 installing package files into.
6071 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6076 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6080 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6084 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6090 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6092 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6093 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6097 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6100 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6101 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6102 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6103 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6107 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6109 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6110 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6111 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6112 multiple binary packages.
6113 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6114 should rebuild them with this version.
6115 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6119 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6122 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6126 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6129 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6133 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6136 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6137 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6138 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6139 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6140 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6141 debian/README.debian.
6142 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6143 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6144 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6145 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6146 in a few situations.)
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6150 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6156 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6162 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6165 * Fixed several man pages.
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6169 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6172 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6173 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6177 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6180 is ready for general use.
6181 * Added man pages for all commands.
6182 * Multiple binary package support.
6183 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6184 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6185 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6187 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6188 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6189 auto-installed as parameters.
6190 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6192 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6195 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6196 the package build directory it is to act on.
6197 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6198 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6199 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6203 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6205 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6206 ready to replace debstd.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400