1 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
3 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
4 || exit 0 instead of the intended
6 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
7 ignored. Closes: #337664
9 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
14 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
20 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
25 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
26 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
27 the dh_installdebconf manpage
28 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
29 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
30 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
31 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
35 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
38 version. Closes: #350607
39 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
40 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
41 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
42 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
46 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
49 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
50 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
51 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
55 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
62 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Minor bug fix from last release.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
68 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
71 language guessing. Closes: #193221
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
75 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
78 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
79 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
80 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
81 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
82 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
83 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
87 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
90 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
91 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
96 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
99 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
103 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
106 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
110 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
113 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
114 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
115 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
116 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
117 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
118 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
122 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
125 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
126 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
127 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
128 link. Closes: #346405
129 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
132 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
133 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
134 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
135 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
136 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
137 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
141 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
148 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
150 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
154 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
157 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
161 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
164 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
169 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
173 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
174 installed. Closes: #342033
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
178 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
181 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
182 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
183 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
188 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
194 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
200 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
204 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
205 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
206 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
210 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
213 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
218 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
225 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
231 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
233 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
234 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
235 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
236 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
237 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
238 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
239 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
240 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
242 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
246 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
249 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
250 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
254 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
257 in standard man dirs.
258 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
262 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
268 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
271 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
276 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
283 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
290 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
293 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
294 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
298 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
300 * NMU with maintainer approval.
301 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
302 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
303 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
305 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
307 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
313 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
319 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
322 mode. Closes: #324161
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
326 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
329 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
330 behavior change. Closes: #249815
331 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
332 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
337 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
340 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
341 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
342 is necesary for sanity.
343 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
344 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
349 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
351 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
352 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
356 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
359 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
363 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
369 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
372 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
373 released, so use at your own risk.
374 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
375 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
377 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
378 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
379 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
380 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
381 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
382 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
383 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
384 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
385 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
386 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
387 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
388 including twice per config file line now..
389 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
390 and simplfy the rules file.
391 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
392 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
393 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
395 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
396 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
400 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
403 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
407 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
410 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
414 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
416 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
417 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
421 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
424 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
425 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
426 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
427 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
428 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
429 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
433 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
436 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
437 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
438 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
443 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
446 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
447 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
452 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
455 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
456 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
457 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
462 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
465 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
466 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
467 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
471 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
477 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
484 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
487 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
488 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
489 unknown. Closes: #282924
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
493 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
500 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Spanish man page updates.
503 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
508 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
514 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
517 * dh_desktop: reindent
518 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
519 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
523 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
529 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
531 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
535 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
537 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
541 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
544 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
545 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
549 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
555 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
561 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
568 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
571 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
575 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
578 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
579 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
580 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
581 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
582 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
583 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
585 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
586 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
587 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
588 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
589 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
590 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
591 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
592 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
593 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
594 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
595 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
596 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
597 in the others, and added a few new tests.
598 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
599 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
600 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
604 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
611 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
614 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
618 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
621 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
625 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
628 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
632 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
635 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
639 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
645 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
651 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
657 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
660 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
661 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
662 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
666 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
669 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
673 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
676 but occasionally right and necessary.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
680 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
683 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
684 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
685 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
686 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
687 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
691 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
694 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
696 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
697 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
698 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
699 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
700 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
701 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
702 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
703 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
704 postinst scripts for udebs.
705 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
709 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
712 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
714 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
715 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
719 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
725 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
732 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
739 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
742 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
746 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
749 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
753 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
756 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
759 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
760 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
764 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
770 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
773 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
777 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
780 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
781 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
782 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
784 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
786 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
787 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
788 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
792 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
795 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
800 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
803 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
804 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
805 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
810 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
816 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
822 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
825 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
826 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
827 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
828 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
829 associated -dbg packages.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
833 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
836 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
840 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
843 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
847 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
850 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
854 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
857 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
862 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Typo. Closes: #207999
865 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
869 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
872 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
877 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
880 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
884 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
888 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
889 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
890 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
891 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
892 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
893 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
894 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
895 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
896 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
897 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
901 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
904 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
909 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
912 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
913 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
917 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
920 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
921 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
926 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
929 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
933 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
936 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
940 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
943 out section number. Closes: #204731
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
947 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
954 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
960 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
966 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Typo, Closes: #203907
969 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
970 removal. Closes: #204286
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
974 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
977 renaming. Closes: #203548
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
981 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
984 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
985 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
989 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
995 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1001 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1007 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1010 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1011 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1012 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1016 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1019 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1020 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1024 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1030 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1037 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1040 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1045 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1048 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1052 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1055 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1057 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1058 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1062 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1065 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1070 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1073 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1077 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1083 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1085 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1089 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1092 it break hard links (see #188663).
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1096 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1099 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1103 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1109 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1113 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1114 debconf-mergetemplates
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1118 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1121 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1125 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1128 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1132 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1135 * Update debhelper(1).
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1139 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1142 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1143 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1144 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1145 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1146 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1150 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1153 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1154 the shell. Closes: #178524
1155 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1159 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1162 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1166 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1169 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1173 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1176 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1177 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1178 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1179 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1184 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1187 files from installation.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1191 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1194 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1195 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1199 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1202 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1206 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1209 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1213 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1219 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1225 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1229 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1230 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1232 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1236 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1239 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1240 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1241 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1242 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1246 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1249 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1253 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1256 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1257 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1261 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1265 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1270 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1276 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1280 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1281 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1282 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1287 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1290 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1291 practice. Closes: #163303
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1295 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1301 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1308 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1311 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1313 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1314 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1315 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1316 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1317 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1321 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1324 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1335 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1342 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1345 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1356 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1362 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1368 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1375 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1378 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1379 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1380 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1381 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1386 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1392 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1399 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1402 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1403 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1407 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1410 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1411 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1412 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1413 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1414 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1418 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1421 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1423 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1428 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1431 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1435 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1438 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1439 right thing. Closes: #150644
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1443 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Stupid, evil typo.
1446 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1450 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1460 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1461 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1466 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1472 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1475 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1479 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1482 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1483 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1491 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1495 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1501 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1504 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1505 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Removing perl warning message.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1524 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1525 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1526 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1527 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1528 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1529 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1530 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1531 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1551 debconf-mergetemplate.
1552 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1553 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1560 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1561 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1562 dh_install, which ...
1563 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1564 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1565 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1566 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1567 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1568 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1569 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1570 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1571 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1572 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1573 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1574 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1575 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1576 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1577 other minor changes.
1578 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1579 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1580 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1581 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1582 course there's -X ..)
1583 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1584 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1585 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1587 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1588 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1589 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1590 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1591 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1596 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1602 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1605 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1609 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1615 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1621 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1627 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1633 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1636 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1637 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1638 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1639 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1641 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1642 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1646 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1652 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1655 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1659 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1662 upset. Closes: #131322
1664 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1666 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1669 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1670 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1671 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1672 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1673 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1674 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1675 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1676 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1677 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1678 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1679 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1680 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1681 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1682 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1683 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1685 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1689 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1692 - Better indenting of generated code.
1693 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1697 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1701 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1702 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1703 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1704 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1705 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1706 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1707 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1711 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1714 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1718 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1721 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1722 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1723 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1724 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1725 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1726 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1727 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1728 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1729 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1730 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1731 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1732 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1733 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1734 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1735 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1740 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1746 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1749 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1750 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1754 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1757 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1758 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1762 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1768 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1771 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1772 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1773 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1774 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1775 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1780 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1786 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1789 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1793 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1796 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1801 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1807 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1810 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1814 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1820 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1824 Also some indentation fixes.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1828 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1831 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1832 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1833 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1834 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1835 Closes: #106514, #85520
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1839 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1845 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1851 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1857 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1863 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1869 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1872 change it in debhelper v4..
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1876 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1882 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1885 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1889 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1892 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1896 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1902 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1905 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1906 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1907 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1908 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1909 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1910 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1911 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1912 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1913 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1914 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1915 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1916 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1920 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1923 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1927 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1934 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1937 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1938 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1939 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1940 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1941 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1942 program those options go to. So, for example,
1943 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1944 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1945 something complex. Closes: #89311
1946 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1950 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1953 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1954 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1955 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1959 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1962 through loop. Closes: #98598
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1966 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Missing semi-colon.
1969 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1970 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1974 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1977 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1978 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1979 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1983 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1986 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1987 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1991 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1994 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1998 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2001 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2002 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2006 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2009 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2010 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2011 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2015 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2018 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2019 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2020 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2024 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2027 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2031 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2037 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2043 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2049 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2055 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2058 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2062 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2065 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2066 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2067 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2068 followed. Closes: #85483
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2072 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2074 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2075 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2076 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2080 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2083 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2084 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2085 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2086 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2087 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2088 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2089 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2090 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2091 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2092 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2093 Closes: #88464, #77743
2094 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2095 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2096 us to deal with that gracefully.
2097 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2099 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2100 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2101 a while, Closes: #51225
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2105 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2111 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2114 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2118 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2122 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2127 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2130 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2131 don't make packlist files.
2132 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2133 debhelper coding standards.
2134 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2135 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2139 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2142 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2146 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2149 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2150 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2151 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2152 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2153 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2154 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2155 but is mildly deprecated.
2156 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2157 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2158 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2159 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2160 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2161 switching to statoverrides..
2162 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2163 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2164 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2165 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2166 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2167 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2169 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2170 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2171 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2172 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2173 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2174 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2175 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2176 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2177 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2179 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2180 variable names, pod man pages).
2181 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2182 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2183 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2184 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2185 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2186 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2187 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2191 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2197 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2204 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2207 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2211 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2213 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2214 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2215 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2219 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2221 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2222 they were previously ignored.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2226 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2228 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2229 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2233 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2235 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2236 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2237 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2241 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2243 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2247 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2249 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2250 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2254 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2256 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2257 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2258 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2259 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2260 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2261 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2262 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2263 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2264 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2265 it is an obsolete program.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2269 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2271 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2275 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2279 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2281 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2285 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2287 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2289 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2291 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2295 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2301 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * typo: Closes, #78567
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2307 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2313 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2319 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2322 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2323 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2324 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2325 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2326 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2330 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2333 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2338 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2341 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2342 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2343 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2344 backwards-compatability.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2348 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2351 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2352 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2353 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2354 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2355 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2356 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2358 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2359 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2360 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2362 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2364 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2365 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2366 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2367 should now be raised to severity important..
2368 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2369 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2373 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2376 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2381 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2387 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2393 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2399 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2406 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2409 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2410 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2411 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2412 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2416 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2422 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2425 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2426 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2427 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2428 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2429 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2430 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2435 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2438 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2442 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2448 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2451 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2456 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2459 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2460 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2461 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2462 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2466 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2470 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2473 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2476 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2477 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2480 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2482 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2483 the TODO entry about it.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2487 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2494 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2497 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2498 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2502 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2505 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2506 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2507 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2508 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2512 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2518 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2525 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2528 (this appears to be logal).
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2532 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2535 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2536 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2537 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2538 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2542 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2548 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2551 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2552 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2553 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2554 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2558 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2564 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2567 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2571 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2578 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2581 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2582 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2583 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2588 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2595 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2601 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2604 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2605 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2606 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2607 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2608 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2609 notice until v2 is complete.
2610 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2611 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2612 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2613 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2614 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2615 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2617 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2618 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2619 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2620 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2624 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2630 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2637 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2640 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2644 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2651 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2654 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2655 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2656 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2657 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2662 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2665 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2666 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2667 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2672 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2675 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2676 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2680 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2683 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2687 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2690 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2694 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2701 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2704 depend on the build and install targets.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2708 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2711 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2715 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2722 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2728 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2734 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2737 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2738 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2739 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2740 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2741 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2742 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2744 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2745 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2746 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2747 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2748 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2749 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2750 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2754 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2760 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2766 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2769 right place. Closes: #55065
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2773 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2780 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2783 * Copyright date updates.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2787 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2790 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2795 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2801 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2808 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2814 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2820 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2826 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2829 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2830 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2831 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2832 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2833 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2834 bits until all files have been registered.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2838 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_installmanpages:
2841 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2842 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2843 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2844 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2845 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2846 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2847 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2848 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2849 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2850 otherwise change the result at all.
2852 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2853 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2854 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2855 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2856 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2861 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2867 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2870 act on files that don't exist.
2871 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2872 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2873 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2875 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2876 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2877 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2878 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2882 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2888 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2894 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2897 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2901 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2904 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2906 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2907 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2908 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2912 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2915 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2916 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2917 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2918 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2919 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2920 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2921 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2923 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2925 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2929 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2936 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2942 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2948 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2951 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2955 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2961 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2967 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2970 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2971 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2972 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2973 I made some changes, though:
2974 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2975 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2976 that is a clear violation of policy.
2977 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2978 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2979 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2980 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2981 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2982 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2983 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2984 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2985 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2987 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2991 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2997 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3000 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3004 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3007 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3008 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3013 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3019 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3026 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3029 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3030 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3031 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3032 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3033 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3034 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3035 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3039 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3045 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3049 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3050 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3054 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3060 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3063 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3067 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3070 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3071 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3075 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3077 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3082 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3086 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3090 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3093 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3094 for the dependancies to be generated.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3098 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3101 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3105 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3108 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3109 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3110 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3115 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3118 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3119 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3123 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3129 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3135 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3138 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3142 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3151 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3152 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3153 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3154 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3155 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3156 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3157 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3158 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3159 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3160 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3161 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3162 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3166 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3169 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3170 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3172 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3173 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3174 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3175 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3176 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3177 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3179 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3180 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3184 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3187 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3191 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3198 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3201 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3206 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3209 for building debhelper.
3210 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3214 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3221 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3224 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3228 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3231 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3232 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3233 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3234 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3235 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3236 it's always available.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3240 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3243 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3244 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3245 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3249 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3252 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3253 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3257 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3263 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3266 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3270 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3276 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3279 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3280 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3281 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3285 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3288 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3293 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3296 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3297 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3299 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3300 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3304 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3310 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3316 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3319 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3323 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3326 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3327 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3329 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3333 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3336 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3337 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3338 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3342 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3345 things if CDPATH is set.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3349 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3355 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3358 seems to make sense for the transition.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3362 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3365 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3370 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3373 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3374 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3378 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3381 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3385 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3388 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3389 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3390 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3391 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3395 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3401 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3404 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3405 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3406 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3407 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3408 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3409 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3410 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3411 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3412 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3413 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3418 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3421 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3422 * README: mention doc/v2
3423 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3424 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3428 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3430 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3431 be using this script RSN.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3435 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3438 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3439 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3440 more than 1 init script.
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3444 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3447 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3451 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Changed perl version detection.
3454 * Changed call to find.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3458 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3461 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3463 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3468 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Really include dh_installpam.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3474 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3477 * Wrote man page for same.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3481 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3484 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3485 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3490 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3497 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3500 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3501 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3502 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3503 x bit was being set!
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3507 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3510 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3511 well. (Closes: 38900)
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3515 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3518 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3519 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3523 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3529 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3536 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3542 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3545 help from Julian Gilbey.
3546 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3547 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3548 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3549 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3550 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3551 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3552 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3557 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3563 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3570 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3576 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3582 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3585 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3589 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3592 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3596 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3599 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3603 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3609 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3612 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3616 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3622 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3628 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3631 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3632 may be deleted. (#35845)
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3636 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Various man page enhancements.
3639 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3644 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3647 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3648 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3652 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3655 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3656 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3657 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3659 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3660 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3665 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3671 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Another very minor typo fix.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3677 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Very minor typo fix.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3683 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3686 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3687 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3691 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3697 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3700 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3701 variables properly (#34850).
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3705 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3711 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3714 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3715 (automatically generated by build process).
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3719 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3721 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3725 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3728 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3729 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3731 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3735 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3738 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3742 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * README: minor typo fix.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3748 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3751 leave it at that. :-)
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3755 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3761 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3767 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3770 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3771 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3772 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3776 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3779 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3783 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3786 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3790 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3793 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3794 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3795 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3796 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3800 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3803 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3804 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3805 Craig Small for spotting this.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3809 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3812 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3813 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3817 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3823 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3826 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3830 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3832 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3833 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3834 working on the last version of debhelper.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3838 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3841 being made. (#23255)
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3845 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3851 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3854 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3858 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3861 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3862 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3863 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3864 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3868 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3871 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3872 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3873 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3874 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3876 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3877 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3879 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3884 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3890 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3896 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3899 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3900 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3901 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3902 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3903 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3904 suidregister actually supports it.
3905 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3906 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3910 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3917 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3920 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3921 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3922 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3923 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3924 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3925 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3926 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3930 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3932 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3933 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3937 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3940 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3941 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3942 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3943 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3947 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3950 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3952 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3953 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3954 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3955 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3956 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3957 effect, either. (#30118)
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3961 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3967 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3970 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3971 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3975 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3981 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3984 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3985 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3986 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3987 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3991 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3994 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3995 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3999 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4005 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4008 packages, painlessly.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4012 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4018 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4024 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4030 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * The perl conversion is complete.
4034 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4036 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4037 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4038 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4043 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4046 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4047 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4048 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4052 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4055 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4057 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4059 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4060 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4064 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4067 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4068 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4072 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4078 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4081 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4082 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4083 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4084 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4085 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4089 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4092 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4093 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4094 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4095 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4099 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4102 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4106 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4109 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4110 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4111 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4112 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4113 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4114 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4115 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4116 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4120 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4126 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4129 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4130 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4131 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4136 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4139 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4143 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4146 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4150 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4153 sections of shared libraries.
4154 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4155 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4156 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4157 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4158 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4159 things you don't want them to.
4160 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4161 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4165 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4168 shared libraries. (#26414)
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4172 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4174 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4175 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4176 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4177 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4181 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4185 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4187 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4188 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4189 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4190 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4191 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4195 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4198 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4202 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4205 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4206 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4211 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4214 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4218 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4221 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4222 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4223 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4224 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4225 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4227 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4228 remove debian/files properly.
4229 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4230 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4231 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4232 * Removed bogus menu file.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4236 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4239 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4243 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4246 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4247 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4248 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4249 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4250 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4251 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4255 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4258 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4259 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4260 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4261 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4265 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4272 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4275 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4276 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4278 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4279 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4280 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4281 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4282 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4283 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4287 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4290 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4291 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4292 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4293 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4294 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4295 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4296 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4297 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4298 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4299 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4300 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4301 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4302 passed any switches.
4303 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4307 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4310 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4311 at all for a long while.
4312 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4313 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4314 large chunks in the process.
4315 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4316 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4317 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4322 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4325 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4327 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4332 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4335 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4336 that don't always have the same files in them.
4337 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4338 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4339 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4343 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4347 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4348 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4349 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4350 updating 27 man pages.
4351 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4352 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4353 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4354 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4355 programs act on. (#25247)
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4359 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4363 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4364 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4365 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4366 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4367 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4368 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4373 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4380 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4387 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4390 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4394 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4400 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4403 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4404 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4405 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4406 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4407 package by accident.
4408 * Is version 1.0 next?
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4412 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4415 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4416 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4420 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4423 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4424 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4425 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4426 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4427 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4429 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4434 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4437 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4438 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4442 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4445 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4449 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4452 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4453 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4458 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4464 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4467 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4468 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4473 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4479 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4482 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4483 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4484 past week. Thanks, guys!
4486 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4487 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4488 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4489 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4490 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4491 would do in the same situation.
4492 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4493 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4495 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4497 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4498 permissions changed.
4499 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4500 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4501 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4502 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4503 files are treated identically.
4504 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4505 * Minor man page fixes.
4506 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4507 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4508 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4512 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4515 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4516 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4517 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4518 use -X multiple times, too.
4519 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4520 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4524 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4527 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4528 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4532 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4535 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4539 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4542 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4543 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4544 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4545 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4546 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4547 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4548 shape if you're starting a new package.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4552 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4555 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4559 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4562 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4563 because of missing symlinks.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4567 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4573 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4576 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4577 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4578 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4579 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4580 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4582 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4583 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4587 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4589 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4590 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4591 to be changed after the fact :-)
4592 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4596 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4598 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4599 no version string after the -V.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4603 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4605 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4606 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4611 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4614 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4618 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4621 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4622 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4623 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4624 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4625 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4626 I always welcome corrections!
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4630 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4636 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4639 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4640 * Documented this new switch.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4644 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4647 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4648 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4649 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4650 no packages use the old behavior.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4654 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4657 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4658 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4662 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4665 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4669 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4675 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4678 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4682 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4685 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4686 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4687 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4691 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4697 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4700 into the source package by accident.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4704 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4707 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4708 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4709 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4710 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4711 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4712 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4717 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4721 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4722 inspired to implement some of it.
4723 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4727 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4730 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4734 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4737 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4738 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4742 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4745 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4746 have done.) (#17598)
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4750 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4756 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4762 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4765 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4769 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4772 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4773 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4777 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4780 argument processor in perl.
4781 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4782 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4783 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4784 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4788 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4791 type directories. (#16933)
4792 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4793 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4794 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4795 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4796 are supported. (#16935)
4797 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4802 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4805 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4809 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4813 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4814 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4815 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4816 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4817 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4818 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4822 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4825 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4826 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4828 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4829 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4830 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4831 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4832 a given package, or -i or -a.
4833 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4834 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4835 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4836 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4837 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4838 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4839 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4840 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4841 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4843 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4844 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4845 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4849 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4852 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4853 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4858 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4861 does not have a section.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4865 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4868 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4869 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4870 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4874 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * Fixed typo #16215.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4880 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4883 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4884 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4885 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4886 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4887 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4892 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4895 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4896 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4897 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4902 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4908 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4914 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4917 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4918 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4919 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4920 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4921 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4922 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4926 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4932 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4935 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4939 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4942 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4943 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4944 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4948 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4951 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4955 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4961 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4964 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4968 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4971 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4975 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4981 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4984 postinst, postrm, etc.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4988 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4994 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4997 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4998 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4999 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5000 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5001 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5005 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5008 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5009 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5013 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5016 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5020 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5023 installing package files into.
5024 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5029 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5033 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5037 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5043 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5046 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5050 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5053 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5054 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5055 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5056 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5060 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5062 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5063 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5064 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5065 multiple binary packages.
5066 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5067 should rebuild them with this version.
5068 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5072 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5075 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5079 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5082 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5086 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5089 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5090 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5091 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5092 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5093 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5094 debian/README.debian.
5095 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5096 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5097 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5098 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5099 in a few situations.)
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5103 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5109 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5115 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5118 * Fixed several man pages.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5122 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5125 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5126 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5130 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5133 is ready for general use.
5134 * Added man pages for all commands.
5135 * Multiple binary package support.
5136 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5137 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5138 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5140 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5141 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5142 auto-installed as parameters.
5143 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5145 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5148 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5149 the package build directory it is to act on.
5150 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5151 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5152 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5156 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5158 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5159 ready to replace debstd.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400