1 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
4 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
8 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
11 run and there are no packages of that type.
12 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
13 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
14 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
15 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
17 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
18 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
22 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
24 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
25 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
26 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
30 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
33 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
34 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
36 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
37 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
38 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
39 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
40 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
41 planned but not yet implemented.)
42 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
43 if the Makefile has such a target.
44 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
45 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
46 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
47 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
48 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
49 but not yet implemented.)
50 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
51 recommended default, especially when using dh.
52 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
53 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
54 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
56 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
58 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
59 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
61 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
62 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
63 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
68 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
71 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
72 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
76 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
78 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
79 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
80 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
84 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
90 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
96 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
99 just those installed by the program.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
103 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
106 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
107 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
111 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
114 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
115 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
116 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
117 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
121 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
124 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
125 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
129 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
132 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
133 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
137 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
140 with policy. Closes: #461392
141 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
142 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
143 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
144 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
145 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
149 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
152 Closes: #460340, #460351
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
156 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
159 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
160 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
161 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
162 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
166 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
169 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
170 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
171 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
172 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
173 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
174 package build directory won't work.
175 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
176 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
177 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
178 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
179 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
180 mode. Closes: #459426
181 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
186 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
189 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
193 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
197 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
198 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
199 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
200 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
201 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
202 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
206 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
209 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
210 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
211 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
212 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
216 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
219 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
220 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
221 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
222 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
223 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
227 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
230 debian/package.triggers files.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
234 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
237 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
241 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
244 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
245 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
246 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
247 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
252 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
255 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
259 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
262 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
263 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
265 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
270 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
274 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
275 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
276 * Typo. Closes: #441272
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
280 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
287 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
294 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
297 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
299 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
300 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
301 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
303 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
304 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
305 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
309 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
312 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
313 * Update urls to web page.
314 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
316 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
317 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
321 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
324 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
325 - typo in alternatives call
326 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
328 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
329 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
333 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
336 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
341 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
347 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
353 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
356 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
358 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
359 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
360 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
361 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
362 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
363 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
364 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
365 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
366 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
367 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
368 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
372 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
375 package install. Closes: #415717
376 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
377 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
378 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
379 script and then remove the python files.
380 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
381 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
382 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
383 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
384 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
385 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
386 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
387 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
388 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
389 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
390 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
391 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
392 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
396 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Correct typo in french translation
402 * Typo. Closes: #400571
403 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
405 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
407 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
408 Closes: #406921, #381940
409 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
411 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
412 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
413 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
414 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
415 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
416 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
417 specified). Closes: #381851
418 * Misc minor changes.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
422 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
429 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
430 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
434 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
440 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
441 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
444 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
445 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
447 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
448 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
449 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
450 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
454 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
457 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
460 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
464 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
470 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
476 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
477 a difficult situation.
478 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
479 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
480 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
481 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
482 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
483 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
484 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
485 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
486 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
487 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
491 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Non-maintainer upload.
494 * Update of dh_python
495 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
496 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
498 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
499 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
500 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
501 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
502 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
504 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
506 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Non-maintainer upload.
509 * Update of dh_python
510 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
511 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
512 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
513 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
514 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
515 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
516 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
517 specific python version. Closes: #373853
518 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
519 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
521 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
522 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
523 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
524 the not too-distant future).
525 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
526 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
527 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
528 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
529 thus made the build fail.
531 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
533 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Non-maintainer upload.
536 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
538 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
540 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
543 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
544 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
545 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
546 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
547 package. Closes: #301424
548 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
549 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
550 fonts). Closes: #372686
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
554 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
560 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
561 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
562 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
563 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
564 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
565 above, but already depends on that.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
569 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
572 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
573 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
574 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
575 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
576 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
580 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
586 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
592 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
593 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
597 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
600 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
604 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
608 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
609 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
610 new version (0.24.1).
611 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
612 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
615 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
616 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
617 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
618 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
619 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
620 new directory on their own.
621 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
622 * Fix broken directory removal code.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
626 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
629 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
630 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
631 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
632 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
636 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
639 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
640 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
641 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
642 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
643 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
647 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
653 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Typo. Closes: #358904
657 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
658 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
662 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
663 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
667 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
669 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
670 || exit 0 instead of the intended
672 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
673 ignored. Closes: #337664
675 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
680 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
686 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
691 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
692 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
693 the dh_installdebconf manpage
694 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
695 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
696 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
697 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
701 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
704 version. Closes: #350607
705 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
706 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
707 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
708 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
715 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
716 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
717 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
721 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
728 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Minor bug fix from last release.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
734 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
737 language guessing. Closes: #193221
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
741 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
744 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
745 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
746 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
747 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
748 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
749 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
753 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
756 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
757 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
762 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
765 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
769 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
772 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
776 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
779 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
780 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
781 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
782 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
783 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
784 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
788 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
791 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
792 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
793 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
794 link. Closes: #346405
795 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
798 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
799 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
800 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
801 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
802 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
803 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
807 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
814 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
816 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
820 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
823 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
827 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
830 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
835 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
839 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
840 installed. Closes: #342033
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
844 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
847 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
848 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
849 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
854 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
860 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
866 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
870 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
871 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
872 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
876 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
879 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
884 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
891 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
897 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
899 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
900 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
901 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
902 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
903 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
904 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
905 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
906 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
908 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
912 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
915 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
916 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
920 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
923 in standard man dirs.
924 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
928 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
934 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
937 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
942 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
949 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
956 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
959 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
960 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
964 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
966 * NMU with maintainer approval.
967 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
968 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
969 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
971 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
973 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
979 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
985 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
988 mode. Closes: #324161
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
992 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
995 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
996 behavior change. Closes: #249815
997 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
998 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1003 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1006 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1007 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1008 is necesary for sanity.
1009 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1010 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1015 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1017 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1018 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1022 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1025 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1029 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1035 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1038 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1039 released, so use at your own risk.
1040 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1041 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1043 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1044 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1045 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1046 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1047 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1048 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1049 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1050 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1051 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1052 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1053 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1054 including twice per config file line now..
1055 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1056 and simplfy the rules file.
1057 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1058 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1059 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1061 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1062 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1066 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1069 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1073 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1076 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1080 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1083 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1087 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1090 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1091 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1092 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1093 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1094 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1095 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1099 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1102 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1103 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1104 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1109 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1112 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1113 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1118 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1121 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1122 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1123 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1128 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1131 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1132 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1133 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1137 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1143 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1150 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1153 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1154 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1155 unknown. Closes: #282924
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1159 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1166 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Spanish man page updates.
1169 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1174 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1180 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1183 * dh_desktop: reindent
1184 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1185 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1189 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1197 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1201 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1203 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1207 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1210 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1211 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1215 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1221 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1234 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1237 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1241 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1244 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1245 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1246 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1247 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1248 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1249 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1251 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1252 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1253 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1254 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1255 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1256 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1257 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1258 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1259 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1260 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1261 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1262 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1263 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1264 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1265 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1266 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1270 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1277 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1280 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1284 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1287 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1291 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1294 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1298 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1301 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1305 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1311 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1317 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1323 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1326 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1327 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1328 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1332 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1335 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1339 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1342 but occasionally right and necessary.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1346 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1349 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1350 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1351 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1352 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1353 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1357 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1360 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1362 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1363 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1364 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1365 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1366 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1367 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1368 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1369 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1370 postinst scripts for udebs.
1371 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1375 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1378 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1380 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1381 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1385 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1391 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1398 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1405 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1408 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1412 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1415 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1419 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1422 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1425 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1426 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1430 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1436 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1439 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1443 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1446 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1447 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1448 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1450 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1452 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1453 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1454 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1458 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1461 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1466 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1469 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1470 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1471 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1476 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1482 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1491 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1492 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1493 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1494 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1495 associated -dbg packages.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1499 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1502 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1509 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1516 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1520 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1523 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1528 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1531 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1538 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1543 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1546 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1550 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1554 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1555 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1556 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1557 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1558 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1559 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1560 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1561 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1562 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1563 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1567 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1570 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1575 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1578 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1579 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1583 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1586 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1587 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1592 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1595 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1599 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1602 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1606 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1609 out section number. Closes: #204731
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1613 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1620 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1635 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1636 removal. Closes: #204286
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1640 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1643 renaming. Closes: #203548
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1647 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1650 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1651 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1655 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1667 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1673 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1676 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1677 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1678 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1685 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1686 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1690 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1696 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1703 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1706 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1714 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1721 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1723 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1724 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1728 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1731 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1739 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1743 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1749 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1751 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1758 it break hard links (see #188663).
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1765 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1775 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1779 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1780 debconf-mergetemplates
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1784 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1787 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1794 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1798 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1801 * Update debhelper(1).
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1805 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1808 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1809 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1810 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1811 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1812 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1816 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1819 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1820 the shell. Closes: #178524
1821 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1825 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1828 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1832 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1835 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1839 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1842 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1843 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1844 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1845 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1850 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1853 files from installation.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1857 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1860 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1861 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1868 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1872 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1875 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1879 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1885 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1891 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1895 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1896 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1898 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1902 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1905 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1906 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1907 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1908 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1912 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1915 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1919 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1922 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1923 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1927 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1931 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1946 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1947 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1948 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1956 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1957 practice. Closes: #163303
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1977 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1979 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1980 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1981 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1982 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1983 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1990 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2011 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2044 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2045 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2046 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2047 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2068 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2069 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2076 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2077 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2078 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2079 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2080 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2087 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2089 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2097 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2104 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2105 right thing. Closes: #150644
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Stupid, evil typo.
2112 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2126 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2127 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2141 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2148 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2149 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2154 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2157 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2170 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2171 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2181 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Removing perl warning message.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2190 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2191 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2192 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2193 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2194 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2195 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2196 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2197 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2217 debconf-mergetemplate.
2218 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2219 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2226 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2227 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2228 dh_install, which ...
2229 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2230 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2231 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2232 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2233 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2234 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2235 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2236 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2237 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2238 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2239 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2240 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2241 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2242 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2243 other minor changes.
2244 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2245 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2246 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2247 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2248 course there's -X ..)
2249 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2250 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2251 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2253 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2254 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2255 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2256 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2257 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2262 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2268 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2271 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2275 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2281 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2287 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2293 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2299 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2302 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2303 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2304 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2305 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2307 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2308 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2312 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2318 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2321 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2325 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2328 upset. Closes: #131322
2330 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2332 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2335 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2336 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2337 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2338 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2339 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2340 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2341 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2342 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2343 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2344 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2345 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2346 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2347 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2348 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2349 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2351 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2355 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2358 - Better indenting of generated code.
2359 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2363 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2367 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2368 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2369 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2370 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2371 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2372 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2373 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2377 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2380 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2384 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2387 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2388 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2389 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2390 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2391 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2392 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2393 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2394 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2395 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2396 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2397 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2398 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2399 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2400 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2401 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2406 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2412 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2415 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2416 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2420 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2423 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2424 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2428 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2434 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2437 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2438 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2439 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2440 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2441 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2446 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2452 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2455 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2459 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2462 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2467 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2473 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2476 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2480 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2486 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2490 Also some indentation fixes.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2494 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2497 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2498 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2499 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2500 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2501 Closes: #106514, #85520
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2505 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2511 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2517 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2523 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2529 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2535 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2538 change it in debhelper v4..
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2542 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2548 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2551 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2555 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2558 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2562 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2568 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2571 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2572 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2573 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2574 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2575 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2576 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2577 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2578 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2579 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2580 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2581 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2582 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2586 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2589 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2593 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2600 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2603 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2604 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2605 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2606 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2607 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2608 program those options go to. So, for example,
2609 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2610 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2611 something complex. Closes: #89311
2612 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2616 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2619 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2620 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2621 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2625 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2628 through loop. Closes: #98598
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2632 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Missing semi-colon.
2635 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2636 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2640 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2643 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2644 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2645 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2649 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2652 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2653 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2657 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2660 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2664 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2667 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2668 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2672 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2675 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2676 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2677 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2681 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2684 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2685 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2686 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2690 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2693 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2697 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2703 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2709 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2715 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2721 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2724 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2728 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2731 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2732 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2733 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2734 followed. Closes: #85483
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2738 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2740 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2741 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2742 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2746 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2749 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2750 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2751 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2752 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2753 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2754 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2755 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2756 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2757 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2758 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2759 Closes: #88464, #77743
2760 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2761 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2762 us to deal with that gracefully.
2763 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2765 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2766 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2767 a while, Closes: #51225
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2771 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2777 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2780 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2784 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2788 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2793 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2796 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2797 don't make packlist files.
2798 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2799 debhelper coding standards.
2800 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2801 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2805 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2808 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2812 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2815 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2816 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2817 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2818 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2819 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2820 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2821 but is mildly deprecated.
2822 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2823 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2824 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2825 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2826 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2827 switching to statoverrides..
2828 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2829 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2830 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2831 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2832 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2833 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2835 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2836 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2837 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2838 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2839 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2840 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2841 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2842 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2843 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2845 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2846 variable names, pod man pages).
2847 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2848 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2849 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2850 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2851 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2852 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2853 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2857 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2863 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2870 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2873 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2877 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2879 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2880 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2881 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2885 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2887 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2888 they were previously ignored.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2892 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2894 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2895 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2899 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2901 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2902 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2903 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2907 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2909 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2913 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2915 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2916 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2920 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2922 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2923 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2924 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2925 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2926 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2927 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2928 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2929 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2930 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2931 it is an obsolete program.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2935 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2937 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2941 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2945 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2947 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2951 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2953 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2955 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2957 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2961 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2967 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * typo: Closes, #78567
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2973 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2979 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2985 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2988 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2989 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2990 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2991 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2992 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2996 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2999 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3004 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3007 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3008 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3009 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3010 backwards-compatability.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3014 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3017 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3018 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3019 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3020 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3021 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3022 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3024 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3025 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3026 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3028 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3030 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3031 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3032 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3033 should now be raised to severity important..
3034 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3035 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3039 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3042 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3047 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3053 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3059 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3065 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3072 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3075 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3076 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3077 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3078 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3082 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3088 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3091 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3092 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3093 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3094 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3095 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3096 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3101 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3104 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3108 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3114 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3117 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3122 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3125 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3126 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3127 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3128 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3132 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3136 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3139 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3142 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3143 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3146 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3148 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3149 the TODO entry about it.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3153 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3160 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3163 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3164 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3168 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3171 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3172 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3173 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3174 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3178 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3184 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3191 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3194 (this appears to be logal).
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3198 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3201 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3202 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3203 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3204 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3208 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3214 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3217 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3218 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3219 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3220 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3224 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3230 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3233 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3237 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3244 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3247 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3248 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3249 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3254 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3261 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3267 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3270 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3271 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3272 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3273 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3274 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3275 notice until v2 is complete.
3276 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3277 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3278 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3279 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3280 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3281 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3283 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3284 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3285 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3286 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3290 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3296 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3303 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3306 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3310 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3317 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3320 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3321 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3322 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3323 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3328 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3331 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3332 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3333 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3338 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3341 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3342 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3346 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3349 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3353 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3356 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3360 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3367 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3370 depend on the build and install targets.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3374 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3377 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3381 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3388 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3403 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3404 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3405 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3406 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3407 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3408 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3410 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3411 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3412 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3413 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3414 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3415 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3416 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3432 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3435 right place. Closes: #55065
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3439 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3446 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3449 * Copyright date updates.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3456 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3461 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3467 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3474 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3480 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3486 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3492 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3495 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3496 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3497 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3498 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3499 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3500 bits until all files have been registered.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3504 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_installmanpages:
3507 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3508 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3509 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3510 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3511 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3512 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3513 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3514 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3515 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3516 otherwise change the result at all.
3518 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3519 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3520 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3521 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3522 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3527 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3536 act on files that don't exist.
3537 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3538 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3539 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3541 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3542 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3543 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3544 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3548 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3554 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3560 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3563 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3567 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3570 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3572 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3573 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3574 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3578 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3581 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3582 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3583 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3584 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3585 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3586 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3587 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3589 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3591 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3595 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3602 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3608 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3614 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3617 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3621 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3627 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3633 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3636 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3637 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3638 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3639 I made some changes, though:
3640 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3641 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3642 that is a clear violation of policy.
3643 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3644 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3645 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3646 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3647 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3648 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3649 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3650 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3651 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3653 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3657 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3666 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3670 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3673 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3674 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3679 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3685 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3692 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3695 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3696 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3697 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3698 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3699 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3700 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3701 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3715 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3716 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3726 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3729 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3733 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3736 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3737 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3743 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3748 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3752 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3756 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3759 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3760 for the dependancies to be generated.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3767 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3771 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3774 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3775 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3776 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3781 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3784 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3785 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3789 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3795 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3801 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3804 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3808 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3814 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3817 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3818 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3819 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3820 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3821 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3822 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3823 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3824 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3825 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3826 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3827 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3828 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3832 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3835 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3836 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3838 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3839 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3840 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3841 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3842 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3843 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3845 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3846 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3853 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3867 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3872 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3875 for building debhelper.
3876 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3887 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3890 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3897 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3898 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3899 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3900 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3901 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3902 it's always available.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3909 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3910 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3911 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3918 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3919 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3929 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3932 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3945 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3946 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3947 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3951 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3954 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3962 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3963 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3965 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3966 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3970 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3985 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3992 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3993 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3995 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4002 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4003 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4004 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4008 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4011 things if CDPATH is set.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4021 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4024 seems to make sense for the transition.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4031 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4036 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4039 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4040 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4047 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4054 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4055 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4056 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4057 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4070 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4071 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4072 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4073 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4074 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4075 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4076 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4077 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4078 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4079 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4084 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4087 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4088 * README: mention doc/v2
4089 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4090 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4094 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4096 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4097 be using this script RSN.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4101 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4104 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4105 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4106 more than 1 init script.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4110 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4113 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4117 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Changed perl version detection.
4120 * Changed call to find.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4124 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4127 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4129 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4134 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Really include dh_installpam.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4140 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4143 * Wrote man page for same.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4147 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4150 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4151 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4156 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4163 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4166 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4167 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4168 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4169 x bit was being set!
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4173 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4176 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4177 well. (Closes: 38900)
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4181 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4184 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4185 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4189 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4195 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4202 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4208 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4211 help from Julian Gilbey.
4212 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4213 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4214 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4215 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4216 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4217 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4218 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4223 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4229 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4236 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4242 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4248 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4251 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4255 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4258 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4262 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4265 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4269 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4275 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4278 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4282 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4288 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4294 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4297 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4298 may be deleted. (#35845)
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4302 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * Various man page enhancements.
4305 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4310 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4313 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4314 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4318 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4321 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4322 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4323 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4325 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4326 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4331 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4337 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Another very minor typo fix.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4343 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Very minor typo fix.
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4349 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4352 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4353 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4357 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4363 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4366 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4367 variables properly (#34850).
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4371 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4377 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4380 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4381 (automatically generated by build process).
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4385 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4387 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4391 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4394 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4395 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4397 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4401 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4404 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4408 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * README: minor typo fix.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4414 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4417 leave it at that. :-)
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4421 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4427 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4433 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4436 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4437 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4438 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4442 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4445 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4449 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4452 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4456 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4459 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4460 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4461 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4462 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4466 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4469 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4470 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4471 Craig Small for spotting this.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4475 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4478 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4479 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4483 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4489 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4492 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4496 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4498 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4499 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4500 working on the last version of debhelper.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4504 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4507 being made. (#23255)
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4511 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4517 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4520 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4524 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4527 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4528 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4529 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4530 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4534 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4537 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4538 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4539 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4540 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4542 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4543 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4545 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4550 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4556 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4562 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4565 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4566 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4567 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4568 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4569 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4570 suidregister actually supports it.
4571 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4572 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4576 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4583 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4586 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4587 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4588 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4589 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4590 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4591 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4592 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4596 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4598 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4599 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4603 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4606 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4607 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4608 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4609 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4613 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4616 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4618 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4619 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4620 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4621 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4622 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4623 effect, either. (#30118)
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4627 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4633 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4636 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4637 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4641 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4647 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4650 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4651 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4652 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4653 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4660 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4661 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4665 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4671 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4674 packages, painlessly.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4678 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4684 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4690 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4696 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * The perl conversion is complete.
4700 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4702 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4703 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4704 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4712 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4713 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4714 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4718 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4721 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4723 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4725 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4726 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4730 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4733 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4734 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4738 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4747 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4748 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4749 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4750 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4751 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4755 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4758 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4759 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4760 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4761 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4765 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4768 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4772 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4775 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4776 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4777 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4778 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4779 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4780 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4781 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4782 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4786 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4795 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4796 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4797 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4802 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4805 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4809 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4812 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4816 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4819 sections of shared libraries.
4820 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4821 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4822 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4823 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4824 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4825 things you don't want them to.
4826 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4827 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4831 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4834 shared libraries. (#26414)
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4838 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4840 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4841 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4842 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4843 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4847 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4851 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4853 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4854 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4855 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4856 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4857 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4861 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4864 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4868 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4871 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4872 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4877 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4880 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4884 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4887 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4888 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4889 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4890 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4891 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4893 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4894 remove debian/files properly.
4895 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4896 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4897 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4898 * Removed bogus menu file.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4902 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4905 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4909 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4912 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4913 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4914 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4915 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4916 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4917 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4921 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4924 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4925 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4926 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4927 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4931 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4938 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4941 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4942 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4944 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4945 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4946 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4947 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4948 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4949 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4953 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4956 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4957 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4958 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4959 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4960 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4961 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4962 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4963 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4964 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4965 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4966 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4967 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4968 passed any switches.
4969 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4973 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4976 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4977 at all for a long while.
4978 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4979 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4980 large chunks in the process.
4981 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4982 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4983 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4988 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4991 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4993 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4998 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5001 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5002 that don't always have the same files in them.
5003 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5004 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5005 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5009 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5013 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5014 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5015 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5016 updating 27 man pages.
5017 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5018 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5019 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5020 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5021 programs act on. (#25247)
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5025 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5029 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5030 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5031 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5032 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5033 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5034 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5039 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5046 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5053 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5056 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5060 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5066 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5069 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5070 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5071 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5072 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5073 package by accident.
5074 * Is version 1.0 next?
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5078 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5081 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5082 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5086 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5089 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5090 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5091 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5092 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5093 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5095 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5100 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5103 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5104 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5108 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5111 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5115 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5118 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5119 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5124 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5130 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5133 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5134 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5139 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5145 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5148 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5149 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5150 past week. Thanks, guys!
5152 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5153 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5154 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5155 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5156 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5157 would do in the same situation.
5158 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5159 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5161 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5163 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5164 permissions changed.
5165 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5166 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5167 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5168 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5169 files are treated identically.
5170 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5171 * Minor man page fixes.
5172 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5173 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5174 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5178 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5181 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5182 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5183 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5184 use -X multiple times, too.
5185 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5186 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5190 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5193 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5194 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5198 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5201 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5205 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5208 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5209 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5210 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5211 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5212 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5213 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5214 shape if you're starting a new package.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5218 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5221 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5225 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5228 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5229 because of missing symlinks.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5233 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5239 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5242 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5243 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5244 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5245 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5246 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5248 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5249 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5253 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5255 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5256 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5257 to be changed after the fact :-)
5258 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5262 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5264 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5265 no version string after the -V.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5269 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5271 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5272 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5277 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5280 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5284 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5287 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5288 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5289 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5290 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5291 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5292 I always welcome corrections!
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5296 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5302 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5305 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5306 * Documented this new switch.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5310 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5313 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5314 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5315 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5316 no packages use the old behavior.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5320 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5323 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5324 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5328 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5331 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5335 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5341 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5344 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5348 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5351 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5352 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5353 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5357 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5363 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5366 into the source package by accident.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5370 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5373 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5374 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5375 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5376 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5377 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5378 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5383 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5387 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5388 inspired to implement some of it.
5389 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5393 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5396 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5400 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5403 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5404 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5408 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5411 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5412 have done.) (#17598)
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5416 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5422 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5428 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5431 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5435 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5438 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5439 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5443 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5446 argument processor in perl.
5447 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5448 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5449 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5450 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5454 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5457 type directories. (#16933)
5458 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5459 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5460 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5461 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5462 are supported. (#16935)
5463 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5468 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5471 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5475 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5479 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5480 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5481 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5482 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5483 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5484 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5488 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5491 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5492 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5494 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5495 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5496 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5497 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5498 a given package, or -i or -a.
5499 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5500 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5501 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5502 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5503 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5504 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5505 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5506 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5507 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5509 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5510 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5511 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5515 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5518 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5519 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5524 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5527 does not have a section.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5531 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5534 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5535 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5536 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5540 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Fixed typo #16215.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5546 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5549 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5550 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5551 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5552 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5553 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5558 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5561 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5562 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5563 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5568 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5574 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5580 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5583 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5584 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5585 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5586 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5587 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5588 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5592 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5598 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5601 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5605 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5608 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5609 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5610 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5614 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5617 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5621 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5627 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5630 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5634 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5637 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5641 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5647 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5650 postinst, postrm, etc.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5654 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5660 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5663 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5664 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5665 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5666 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5667 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5671 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5674 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5675 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5679 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5682 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5686 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5689 installing package files into.
5690 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5695 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5699 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5703 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5709 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5712 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5716 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5719 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5720 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5721 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5722 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5726 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5728 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5729 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5730 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5731 multiple binary packages.
5732 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5733 should rebuild them with this version.
5734 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5738 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5741 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5745 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5748 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5752 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5755 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5756 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5757 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5758 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5759 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5760 debian/README.debian.
5761 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5762 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5763 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5764 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5765 in a few situations.)
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5769 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5775 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5781 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5784 * Fixed several man pages.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5788 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5791 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5792 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5796 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5799 is ready for general use.
5800 * Added man pages for all commands.
5801 * Multiple binary package support.
5802 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5803 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5804 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5806 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5807 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5808 auto-installed as parameters.
5809 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5811 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5814 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5815 the package build directory it is to act on.
5816 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5817 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5818 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5822 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5824 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5825 ready to replace debstd.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400