1 debhelper (7.4.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
4 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
5 (It was only run once due to logging.)
6 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
7 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
8 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
9 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:48:39 -0400
13 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
17 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
20 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
21 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
25 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
28 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
29 flag with arch all/any packages.
30 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
31 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
32 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
33 situation. Closes: #540794
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
37 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
41 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
42 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
43 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
44 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
45 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
48 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
49 the default. Closes: #538201
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
54 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
58 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
59 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
60 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
61 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
62 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
64 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
65 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
66 * Above Closes: #491117
67 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
72 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
78 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
79 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
80 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
84 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
87 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
88 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
89 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
90 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
91 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
96 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
99 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
100 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
104 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
106 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
110 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
112 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
113 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
115 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
116 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
117 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
121 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
123 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
124 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
128 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
134 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
136 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
137 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
138 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
143 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
145 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
149 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
152 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
153 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
154 created by using `python' first during build and install.
156 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
161 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
163 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
167 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
169 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
170 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
174 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
176 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
180 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
182 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
186 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
188 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
189 contributed by Modestas Vainius
190 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
191 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
192 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
193 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
194 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
195 that support it. Closes: #480577
196 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
197 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
198 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
200 - Adds support for cmake.
201 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
202 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
204 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
206 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
207 that use them. The options are:
208 --sourcedir, --destdir
209 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
210 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
211 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
212 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
213 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
217 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
223 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
226 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
227 default. Closes: #537140
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
231 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
234 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
235 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
239 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
242 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
246 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
249 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
253 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
256 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
258 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
259 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
260 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
264 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
267 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
268 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
269 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
273 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
276 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
277 warning or deprecation message.
278 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
279 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
280 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
281 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
282 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
283 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
284 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
285 Closes: #534639, #357434
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
289 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
295 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
298 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
299 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
300 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
301 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
303 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
304 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
305 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
309 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
315 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
322 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
325 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
329 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
333 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
334 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
336 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
337 file support. Closes: #494914
338 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
342 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
345 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
346 parameters. Closes: #527256
347 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
348 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
349 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
353 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
357 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
358 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
359 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
363 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
366 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
367 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
368 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
372 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
375 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
376 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
378 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
379 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
380 by triggers). Closes: #521181
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
384 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
388 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
392 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
395 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
396 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
397 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
398 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
403 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
409 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
412 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
413 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
414 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
415 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
416 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
418 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
419 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
420 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
421 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
422 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
423 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
427 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
430 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
431 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
432 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
433 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
434 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
436 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
440 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
442 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
446 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
448 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
449 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
450 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
451 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
452 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
453 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
454 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
455 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
456 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
457 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
458 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
462 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
464 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
465 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
467 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
468 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
469 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
470 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
472 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
473 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
477 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
479 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
480 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
481 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
482 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
483 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
484 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
485 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
487 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
488 that uses them. Affected options are:
489 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
490 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
491 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
492 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
493 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
494 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
495 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
496 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
497 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
498 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
499 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
500 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
504 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
511 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
517 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
519 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
520 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
522 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
523 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
524 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
525 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
526 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
528 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
530 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
531 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
532 rules (see bug #509756).
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
536 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
542 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
543 * Typo. Closes: #493062
544 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
545 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
549 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
552 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
553 empty files. Closes: #490937
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
557 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
563 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
570 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
573 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
574 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
575 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
576 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
581 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
583 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
584 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
585 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
586 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
590 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
593 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
594 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
595 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
596 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
597 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
601 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
608 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
610 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
611 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
612 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
613 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
614 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
615 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
616 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
617 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
618 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
619 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
623 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
626 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
627 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
628 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
629 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
631 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
632 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
633 breaking backwards compatability.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
637 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
640 message in perl 5.10.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
644 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
650 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Convert copyright file to new format.
653 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
657 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
660 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
664 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
667 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
668 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
669 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
670 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
671 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
672 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
673 logging by dh_listpackages.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
677 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
680 run and there are no packages of that type.
681 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
682 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
683 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
684 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
686 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
687 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
691 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
693 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
694 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
695 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
699 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
702 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
703 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
705 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
706 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
707 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
708 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
709 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
710 planned but not yet implemented.)
711 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
712 if the Makefile has such a target.
713 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
714 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
715 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
716 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
717 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
718 but not yet implemented.)
719 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
720 recommended default, especially when using dh.
721 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
722 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
723 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
725 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
727 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
728 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
730 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
731 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
732 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
737 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
740 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
741 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
745 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
747 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
748 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
749 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
753 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
759 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
765 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
768 just those installed by the program.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
772 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
775 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
776 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
780 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
783 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
784 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
785 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
786 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
790 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
793 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
794 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
798 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
801 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
802 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
806 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
809 with policy. Closes: #461392
810 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
811 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
812 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
813 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
814 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
818 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
821 Closes: #460340, #460351
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
825 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
828 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
829 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
830 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
831 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
835 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
838 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
839 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
840 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
841 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
842 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
843 package build directory won't work.
844 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
845 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
846 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
847 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
848 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
849 mode. Closes: #459426
850 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
855 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
858 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
862 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
866 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
867 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
868 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
869 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
870 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
871 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
875 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
878 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
879 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
880 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
881 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
885 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
888 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
889 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
890 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
891 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
892 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
896 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
899 debian/package.triggers files.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
903 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
906 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
910 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
913 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
914 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
915 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
916 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
921 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
924 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
928 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
931 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
932 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
934 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
939 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
943 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
944 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
945 * Typo. Closes: #441272
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
949 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
956 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
963 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
966 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
968 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
969 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
970 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
972 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
973 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
974 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
978 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
981 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
982 * Update urls to web page.
983 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
985 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
986 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
990 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
993 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
994 - typo in alternatives call
995 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
997 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
998 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1002 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1005 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1010 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1016 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1022 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1025 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1027 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1028 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1029 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1030 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1031 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1032 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1033 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1034 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1035 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1036 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1037 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1041 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1044 package install. Closes: #415717
1045 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1046 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1047 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1048 script and then remove the python files.
1049 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1050 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1051 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1052 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1053 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1054 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1055 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1056 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1057 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1058 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1059 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1060 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1061 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1065 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Correct typo in french translation
1071 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1072 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1074 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1076 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1077 Closes: #406921, #381940
1078 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1080 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1081 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1082 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1083 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1084 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1085 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1086 specified). Closes: #381851
1087 * Misc minor changes.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1091 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1098 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1099 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1103 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1109 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1110 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1113 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1114 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1116 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1117 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1118 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1119 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1123 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1126 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1129 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1133 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1139 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1145 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1146 a difficult situation.
1147 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1148 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1149 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1150 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1151 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1152 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1153 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1154 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1155 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1156 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1160 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Non-maintainer upload.
1163 * Update of dh_python
1164 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1165 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1167 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1168 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1169 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1170 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1171 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1173 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1175 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Non-maintainer upload.
1178 * Update of dh_python
1179 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1180 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1181 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1182 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1183 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1184 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1185 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1186 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1187 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1188 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1190 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1191 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1192 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1193 the not too-distant future).
1194 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1195 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1196 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1197 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1198 thus made the build fail.
1200 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1202 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Non-maintainer upload.
1205 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1207 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1209 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1212 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1213 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1214 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1215 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1216 package. Closes: #301424
1217 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1218 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1219 fonts). Closes: #372686
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1223 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1229 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1230 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1231 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1232 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1233 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1234 above, but already depends on that.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1238 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1241 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1242 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1243 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1244 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1245 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1249 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1255 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1261 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1262 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1266 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1269 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1273 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1277 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1278 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1279 new version (0.24.1).
1280 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1281 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1284 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1285 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1286 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1287 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1288 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1289 new directory on their own.
1290 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1291 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1295 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1298 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1299 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1300 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1301 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1305 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1308 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1309 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1310 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1311 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1312 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1316 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1322 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1326 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1327 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1331 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1332 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1336 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1338 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1339 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1341 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1342 ignored. Closes: #337664
1344 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1349 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1355 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1360 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1361 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1362 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1363 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1364 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1365 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1366 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1370 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1373 version. Closes: #350607
1374 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1375 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1376 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1377 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1381 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1384 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1385 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1386 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1390 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1397 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1403 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1406 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1410 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1413 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1414 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1415 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1416 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1417 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1418 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1422 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1425 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1426 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1431 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1434 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1438 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1441 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1445 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1448 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1449 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1450 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1451 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1452 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1453 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1457 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1461 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1462 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1463 link. Closes: #346405
1464 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1466 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1467 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1468 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1469 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1470 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1471 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1472 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1476 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1483 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1489 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1492 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1496 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1499 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1504 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1508 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1509 installed. Closes: #342033
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1513 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1516 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1517 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1518 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1523 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1529 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1535 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1539 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1540 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1541 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1545 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1548 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1553 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1560 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1566 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1569 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1570 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1571 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1572 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1573 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1574 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1575 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1577 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1581 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1584 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1585 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1589 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1592 in standard man dirs.
1593 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1597 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1603 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1606 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1611 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1625 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1628 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1629 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1633 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1636 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1637 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1638 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1640 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1642 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1657 mode. Closes: #324161
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1664 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1665 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1666 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1667 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1672 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1675 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1676 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1677 is necesary for sanity.
1678 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1679 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1684 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1686 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1687 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1691 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1694 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1698 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1704 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1707 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1708 released, so use at your own risk.
1709 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1710 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1712 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1713 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1714 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1715 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1716 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1717 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1718 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1719 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1720 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1721 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1722 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1723 including twice per config file line now..
1724 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1725 and simplfy the rules file.
1726 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1727 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1728 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1730 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1731 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1735 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1738 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1742 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1745 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1749 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1752 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1756 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1759 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1760 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1761 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1762 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1763 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1764 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1768 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1771 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1772 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1773 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1778 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1781 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1782 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1787 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1790 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1791 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1792 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1797 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1800 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1801 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1802 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1806 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1812 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1819 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1822 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1823 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1824 unknown. Closes: #282924
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1828 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1835 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Spanish man page updates.
1838 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1852 * dh_desktop: reindent
1853 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1854 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1866 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1870 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1872 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1876 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1879 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1880 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1884 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1906 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1913 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1914 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1915 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1916 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1917 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1918 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1920 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1921 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1922 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1923 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1924 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1925 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1926 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1927 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1928 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1929 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1930 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1931 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1932 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1933 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1934 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1935 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1949 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1953 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1956 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1963 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1970 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1980 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1986 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1992 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1995 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1996 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1997 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2001 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2004 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2008 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2011 but occasionally right and necessary.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2015 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2018 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2019 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2020 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2021 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2022 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2026 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2029 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2031 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2032 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2033 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2034 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2035 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2036 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2037 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2038 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2039 postinst scripts for udebs.
2040 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2044 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2047 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2049 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2050 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2054 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2060 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2067 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2077 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2081 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2084 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2088 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2091 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2094 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2095 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2099 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2105 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2108 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2112 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2115 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2116 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2117 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2119 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2121 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2122 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2123 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2127 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2130 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2138 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2139 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2140 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2145 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2151 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2160 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2161 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2162 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2163 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2164 associated -dbg packages.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2171 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2178 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2185 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2192 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2200 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2207 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2215 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2219 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2223 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2224 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2225 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2226 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2227 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2228 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2229 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2230 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2231 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2232 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2239 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2247 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2248 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2255 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2256 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2261 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2264 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2271 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2278 out section number. Closes: #204731
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2304 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2305 removal. Closes: #204286
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2309 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2312 renaming. Closes: #203548
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2319 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2320 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2336 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2342 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2345 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2346 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2347 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2354 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2355 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2375 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2383 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2390 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2392 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2393 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2400 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2408 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2420 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2427 it break hard links (see #188663).
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2434 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2444 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2448 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2449 debconf-mergetemplates
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2453 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2456 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2460 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2463 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2467 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2470 * Update debhelper(1).
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2474 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2477 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2478 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2479 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2480 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2481 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2488 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2489 the shell. Closes: #178524
2490 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2494 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2497 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2501 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2504 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2508 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2511 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2512 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2513 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2514 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2522 files from installation.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2526 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2529 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2530 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2534 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2537 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2541 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2544 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2548 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2560 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2564 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2565 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2567 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2574 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2575 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2576 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2577 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2581 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2584 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2588 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2591 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2592 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2596 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2600 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2615 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2616 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2617 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2625 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2626 practice. Closes: #163303
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2646 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2648 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2649 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2650 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2651 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2652 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2659 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2680 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2691 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2697 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2713 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2714 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2715 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2716 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2737 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2738 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2745 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2746 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2747 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2748 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2749 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2756 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2758 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2763 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2766 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2770 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2773 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2774 right thing. Closes: #150644
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2778 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Stupid, evil typo.
2781 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2792 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2795 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2796 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2810 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2817 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2818 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2823 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2826 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2830 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2839 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2840 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2844 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Removing perl warning message.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2859 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2860 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2861 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2862 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2863 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2864 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2865 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2866 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2886 debconf-mergetemplate.
2887 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2888 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2892 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2895 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2896 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2897 dh_install, which ...
2898 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2899 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2900 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2901 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2902 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2903 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2904 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2905 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2906 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2907 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2908 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2909 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2910 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2911 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2912 other minor changes.
2913 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2914 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2915 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2916 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2917 course there's -X ..)
2918 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2919 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2920 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2922 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2923 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2924 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2925 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2926 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2931 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2937 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2940 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2944 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2950 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2956 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2962 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2968 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2971 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2972 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2973 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2974 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2976 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2977 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2981 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2987 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2990 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2994 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2997 upset. Closes: #131322
2999 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3001 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3004 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
3005 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3006 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3007 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3008 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3009 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3010 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3011 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3012 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3013 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3014 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3015 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3016 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3017 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3018 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3020 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3024 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3027 - Better indenting of generated code.
3028 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3032 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3036 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3037 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3038 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3039 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3040 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3041 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3042 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3046 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3049 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3053 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3056 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3057 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3058 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3059 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3060 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3061 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3062 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3063 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3064 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3065 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3066 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3067 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3068 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3069 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3070 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3075 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3081 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3084 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3085 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3089 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3092 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3093 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3097 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3103 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3106 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3107 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3108 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3109 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3110 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3115 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3121 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3124 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3128 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3131 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3136 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3142 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3145 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3149 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3155 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3159 Also some indentation fixes.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3163 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3166 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3167 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3168 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3169 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3170 Closes: #106514, #85520
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3174 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3180 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3186 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3192 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3198 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3204 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3207 change it in debhelper v4..
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3211 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3217 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3220 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3224 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3227 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3231 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3237 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3240 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3241 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3242 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3243 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3244 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3245 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3246 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3247 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3248 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3249 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3250 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3251 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3255 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3258 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3262 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3269 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3272 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3273 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3274 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3275 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3276 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3277 program those options go to. So, for example,
3278 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3279 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3280 something complex. Closes: #89311
3281 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3285 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3288 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3289 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3290 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3294 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3297 through loop. Closes: #98598
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3301 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Missing semi-colon.
3304 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3305 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3309 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3312 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3313 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3314 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3318 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3321 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3322 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3326 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3329 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3333 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3336 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3337 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3341 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3344 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3345 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3346 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3350 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3353 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3354 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3355 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3359 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3362 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3366 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3372 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3378 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3384 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3390 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3393 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3397 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3400 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3401 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3402 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3403 followed. Closes: #85483
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3407 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3409 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3410 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3411 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3415 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3418 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3419 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3420 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3421 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3422 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3423 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3424 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3425 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3426 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3427 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3428 Closes: #88464, #77743
3429 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3430 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3431 us to deal with that gracefully.
3432 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3434 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3435 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3436 a while, Closes: #51225
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3440 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3446 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3449 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3453 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3457 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3462 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3465 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3466 don't make packlist files.
3467 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3468 debhelper coding standards.
3469 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3470 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3474 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3477 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3481 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3484 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3485 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3486 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3487 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3488 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3489 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3490 but is mildly deprecated.
3491 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3492 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3493 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3494 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3495 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3496 switching to statoverrides..
3497 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3498 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3499 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3500 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3501 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3502 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3504 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3505 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3506 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3507 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3508 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3509 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3510 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3511 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3512 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3514 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3515 variable names, pod man pages).
3516 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3517 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3518 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3519 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3520 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3521 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3522 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3526 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3532 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3542 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3546 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3548 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3549 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3550 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3554 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3556 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3557 they were previously ignored.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3561 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3563 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3564 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3568 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3570 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3571 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3572 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3576 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3578 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3582 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3584 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3585 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3589 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3591 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3592 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3593 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3594 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3595 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3596 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3597 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3598 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3599 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3600 it is an obsolete program.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3604 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3606 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3610 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3614 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3616 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3620 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3622 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3624 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3626 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3630 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3636 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * typo: Closes, #78567
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3642 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3648 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3654 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3657 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3658 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3659 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3660 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3661 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3665 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3668 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3673 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3676 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3677 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3678 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3679 backwards-compatability.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3683 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3686 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3687 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3688 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3689 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3690 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3691 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3693 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3694 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3695 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3697 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3699 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3700 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3701 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3702 should now be raised to severity important..
3703 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3704 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3708 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3711 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3716 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3722 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3734 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3744 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3745 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3746 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3747 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3751 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3757 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3760 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3761 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3762 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3763 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3764 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3765 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3773 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3786 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3794 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3795 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3796 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3797 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3801 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3805 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3808 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3811 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3812 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3815 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3817 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3818 the TODO entry about it.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3822 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3832 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3833 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3837 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3840 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3841 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3842 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3843 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3847 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3853 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3860 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3863 (this appears to be logal).
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3870 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3871 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3872 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3873 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3877 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3883 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3886 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3887 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3888 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3889 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3893 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3899 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3902 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3916 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3917 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3918 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3939 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3940 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3941 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3942 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3943 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3944 notice until v2 is complete.
3945 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3946 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3947 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3948 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3949 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3950 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3952 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3953 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3954 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3955 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3975 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3979 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3989 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3990 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3991 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3992 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3997 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4000 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4001 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4002 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4010 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4011 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4018 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4025 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4036 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4039 depend on the build and install targets.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4043 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4046 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4072 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4073 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4074 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4075 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4076 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4077 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4079 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4080 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4081 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4082 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4083 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4084 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4085 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4089 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4095 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4101 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4104 right place. Closes: #55065
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4108 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4115 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4118 * Copyright date updates.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4122 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4125 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4130 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4136 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4143 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4155 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4161 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4164 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4165 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4166 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4167 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4168 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4169 bits until all files have been registered.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4173 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_installmanpages:
4176 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4177 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4178 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4179 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4180 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4181 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4182 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4183 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4184 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4185 otherwise change the result at all.
4187 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4188 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4189 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4190 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4191 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4196 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4202 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4205 act on files that don't exist.
4206 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4207 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4208 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4210 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4211 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4212 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4213 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4217 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4223 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4229 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4232 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4236 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4239 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4241 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4242 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4243 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4247 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4250 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4251 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4252 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4253 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4254 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4255 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4256 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4258 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4260 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4264 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4271 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4286 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4302 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4305 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4306 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4307 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4308 I made some changes, though:
4309 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4310 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4311 that is a clear violation of policy.
4312 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4313 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4314 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4315 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4316 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4317 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4318 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4319 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4320 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4322 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4335 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4342 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4343 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4364 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4365 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4366 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4367 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4368 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4369 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4370 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4384 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4385 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4395 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4398 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4405 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4406 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4412 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4421 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4428 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4429 for the dependancies to be generated.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4436 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4443 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4444 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4445 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4453 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4454 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4458 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4464 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4473 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4486 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4487 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4488 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4489 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4490 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4491 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4492 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4493 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4494 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4495 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4496 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4497 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4504 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4505 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4507 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4508 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4509 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4510 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4511 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4512 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4514 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4515 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4522 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4533 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4536 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4544 for building debhelper.
4545 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4549 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4556 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4559 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4566 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4567 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4568 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4569 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4570 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4571 it's always available.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4578 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4579 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4580 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4584 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4587 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4588 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4592 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4598 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4601 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4605 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4614 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4615 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4616 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4623 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4628 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4631 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4632 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4634 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4635 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4654 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4661 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4662 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4664 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4671 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4672 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4673 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4680 things if CDPATH is set.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4693 seems to make sense for the transition.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4700 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4708 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4709 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4716 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4723 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4724 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4725 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4726 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4739 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4740 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4741 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4742 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4743 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4744 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4745 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4746 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4747 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4748 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4753 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4756 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4757 * README: mention doc/v2
4758 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4759 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4763 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4765 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4766 be using this script RSN.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4770 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4773 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4774 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4775 more than 1 init script.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4779 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4782 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4786 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Changed perl version detection.
4789 * Changed call to find.
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4793 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4796 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4798 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4803 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Really include dh_installpam.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4809 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4812 * Wrote man page for same.
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4816 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4819 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4820 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4825 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4832 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4835 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4836 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4837 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4838 x bit was being set!
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4842 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4845 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4846 well. (Closes: 38900)
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4850 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4853 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4854 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4864 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4871 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4877 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4880 help from Julian Gilbey.
4881 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4882 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4883 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4884 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4885 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4886 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4887 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4892 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4898 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4905 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4911 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4917 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4920 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4924 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4927 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4931 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4934 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4938 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4944 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4947 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4951 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4966 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4967 may be deleted. (#35845)
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * Various man page enhancements.
4974 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4982 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4983 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4990 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4991 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4992 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4994 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4995 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5006 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Another very minor typo fix.
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5012 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * Very minor typo fix.
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5018 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5021 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5022 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5026 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5035 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5036 variables properly (#34850).
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5040 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5046 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5049 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5050 (automatically generated by build process).
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5054 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5056 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5060 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5063 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5064 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5066 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5070 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5073 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5077 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * README: minor typo fix.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5083 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5086 leave it at that. :-)
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5090 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5096 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5102 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5105 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5106 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5107 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5111 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5114 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5118 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5121 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5125 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5128 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5129 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5130 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5131 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5135 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5138 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5139 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5140 Craig Small for spotting this.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5144 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5147 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5148 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5152 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5158 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5161 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5165 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5167 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5168 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5169 working on the last version of debhelper.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5173 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5176 being made. (#23255)
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5180 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5189 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5193 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5196 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5197 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5198 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5199 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5206 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5207 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5208 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5209 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5211 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5212 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5214 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5219 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5225 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5231 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5234 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5235 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5236 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5237 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5238 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5239 suidregister actually supports it.
5240 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5241 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5245 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5252 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5255 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5256 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5257 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5258 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5259 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5260 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5261 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5265 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5267 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5268 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5272 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5275 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5276 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5277 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5278 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5285 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5287 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5288 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5289 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5290 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5291 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5292 effect, either. (#30118)
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5296 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5302 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5305 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5306 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5319 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5320 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5321 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5322 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5326 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5329 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5330 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5334 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5340 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5343 packages, painlessly.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5347 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5353 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * The perl conversion is complete.
5369 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5371 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5372 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5373 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5378 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5381 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5382 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5383 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5387 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5390 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5392 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5394 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5395 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5399 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5402 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5403 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5407 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5416 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5417 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5418 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5419 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5420 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5424 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5427 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5428 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5429 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5430 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5434 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5437 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5441 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5444 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5445 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5446 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5447 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5448 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5449 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5450 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5451 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5455 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5461 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5464 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5465 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5466 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5471 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5474 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5478 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5481 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5485 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5488 sections of shared libraries.
5489 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5490 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5491 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5492 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5493 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5494 things you don't want them to.
5495 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5496 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5500 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5503 shared libraries. (#26414)
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5507 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5509 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5510 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5511 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5512 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5520 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5522 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5523 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5524 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5525 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5526 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5533 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5537 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5540 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5541 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5549 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5553 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5556 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5557 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5558 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5559 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5560 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5562 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5563 remove debian/files properly.
5564 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5565 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5566 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5567 * Removed bogus menu file.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5574 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5578 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5581 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5582 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5583 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5584 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5585 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5586 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5593 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5594 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5595 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5596 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5600 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5607 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5610 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5611 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5613 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5614 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5615 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5616 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5617 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5618 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5622 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5625 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5626 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5627 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5628 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5629 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5630 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5631 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5632 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5633 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5634 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5635 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5636 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5637 passed any switches.
5638 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5642 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5645 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5646 at all for a long while.
5647 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5648 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5649 large chunks in the process.
5650 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5651 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5652 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5657 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5660 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5662 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5667 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5670 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5671 that don't always have the same files in them.
5672 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5673 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5674 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5682 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5683 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5684 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5685 updating 27 man pages.
5686 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5687 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5688 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5689 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5690 programs act on. (#25247)
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5694 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5698 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5699 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5700 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5701 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5702 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5703 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5708 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5715 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5722 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5725 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5729 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5735 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5738 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5739 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5740 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5741 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5742 package by accident.
5743 * Is version 1.0 next?
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5747 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5750 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5751 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5755 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5758 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5759 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5760 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5761 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5762 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5764 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5769 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5772 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5773 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5777 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5780 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5784 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5787 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5788 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5793 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5799 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5802 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5803 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5808 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5814 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5817 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5818 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5819 past week. Thanks, guys!
5821 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5822 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5823 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5824 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5825 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5826 would do in the same situation.
5827 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5828 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5830 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5832 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5833 permissions changed.
5834 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5835 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5836 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5837 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5838 files are treated identically.
5839 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5840 * Minor man page fixes.
5841 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5842 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5843 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5847 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5850 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5851 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5852 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5853 use -X multiple times, too.
5854 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5855 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5859 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5862 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5863 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5867 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5870 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5874 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5877 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5878 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5879 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5880 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5881 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5882 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5883 shape if you're starting a new package.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5887 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5890 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5894 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5897 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5898 because of missing symlinks.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5902 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5908 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5911 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5912 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5913 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5914 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5915 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5917 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5918 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5922 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5924 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5925 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5926 to be changed after the fact :-)
5927 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5931 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5933 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5934 no version string after the -V.
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5938 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5940 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5941 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5946 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5949 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5953 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5956 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5957 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5958 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5959 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5960 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5961 I always welcome corrections!
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5965 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5971 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5974 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5975 * Documented this new switch.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5979 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5982 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5983 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5984 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5985 no packages use the old behavior.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5989 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5992 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5993 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5997 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6000 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6004 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6010 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6013 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6017 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6020 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6021 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6022 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6026 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6032 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6035 into the source package by accident.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6039 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6042 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6043 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6044 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6045 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6046 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6047 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6052 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6056 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6057 inspired to implement some of it.
6058 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6062 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6065 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6069 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6072 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6073 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6077 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6080 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6081 have done.) (#17598)
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6085 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6091 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6097 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6100 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6104 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6107 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6108 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6112 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6115 argument processor in perl.
6116 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6117 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6118 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6119 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6123 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6126 type directories. (#16933)
6127 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6128 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6129 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6130 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6131 are supported. (#16935)
6132 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6137 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6140 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6144 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6148 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6149 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6150 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6151 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6152 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6153 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6157 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6160 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6161 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6163 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6164 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6165 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6166 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6167 a given package, or -i or -a.
6168 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6169 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6170 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6171 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6172 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6173 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6174 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6175 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6176 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6178 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6179 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6180 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6184 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6187 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6188 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6193 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6196 does not have a section.
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6200 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6203 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6204 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6205 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6209 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * Fixed typo #16215.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6215 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6218 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6219 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6220 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6221 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6222 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6227 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6230 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6231 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6232 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6237 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6243 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6249 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6252 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6253 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6254 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6255 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6256 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6257 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6261 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6267 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6270 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6274 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6277 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6278 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6279 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6283 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6286 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6290 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6296 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6299 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6303 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6306 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6310 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6312 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6316 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6319 postinst, postrm, etc.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6323 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6329 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6332 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6333 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6334 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6335 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6336 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6340 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6343 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6344 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6351 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6358 installing package files into.
6359 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6364 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6368 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6372 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6378 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6381 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6385 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6388 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6389 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6390 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6391 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6395 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6397 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6398 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6399 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6400 multiple binary packages.
6401 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6402 should rebuild them with this version.
6403 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6407 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6410 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6414 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6417 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6421 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6424 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6425 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6426 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6427 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6428 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6429 debian/README.debian.
6430 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6431 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6432 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6433 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6434 in a few situations.)
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6438 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6444 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6446 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6450 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6453 * Fixed several man pages.
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6457 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6460 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6461 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6465 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6468 is ready for general use.
6469 * Added man pages for all commands.
6470 * Multiple binary package support.
6471 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6472 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6473 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6475 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6476 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6477 auto-installed as parameters.
6478 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6480 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6483 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6484 the package build directory it is to act on.
6485 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6486 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6487 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6491 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6493 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6494 ready to replace debstd.
6496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400