1 debhelper (8.1.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
4 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
5 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
6 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
7 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
8 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
9 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:05:52 -0400
13 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
17 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
18 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
20 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
21 changes may be added to that mode.
22 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
23 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
24 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
25 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
26 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
27 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
28 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
29 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
30 * Removed old example rules files.
31 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
35 * update french translation.
36 * Fix french misspelling.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
40 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
43 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
47 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
50 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
52 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
53 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
54 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
55 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
56 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
60 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
63 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
64 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
65 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
66 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
67 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
68 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
70 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
71 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
72 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
73 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
74 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
75 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
76 (Thanks, David Prévot)
77 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
78 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
79 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
80 target fails. Closes: #601037
81 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
83 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
84 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
85 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
87 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
89 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
90 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
92 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
93 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
94 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
96 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
98 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
101 * update french translation.
102 * Fix french misspelling.
103 * French translation update after massive man page typography
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
107 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
113 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
117 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
119 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
123 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
125 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
126 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
127 introduced by the fix to #527990.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
131 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
134 changes are planned for that mode.
135 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
136 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
137 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
138 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
139 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
140 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
141 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
142 (genesis) still uses them.
143 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
144 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
145 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
146 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
147 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
148 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
149 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
150 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
151 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
152 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
153 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
154 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
155 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
156 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
157 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
158 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
159 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
160 commands. (See #570039)
161 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
163 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
168 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
172 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
173 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
174 in control file or debhelper config files.
175 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
179 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
182 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
183 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
187 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
190 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
194 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
197 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
198 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
202 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Updated French translation.
205 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
206 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
207 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
208 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
210 * Typo. Closes: #571968
211 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
212 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
213 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
214 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
215 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
216 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
217 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
218 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
219 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
221 * dh: Improve documentation.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
225 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
227 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
228 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
229 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
233 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
236 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
240 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
243 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
247 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
250 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
251 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
252 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
253 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
254 options that they do not support.
255 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
256 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
257 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
258 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
259 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
260 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
265 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
269 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
270 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
271 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
272 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
273 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
274 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
275 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
276 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
277 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
281 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
284 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
285 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
286 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
287 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
291 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Typo. Closes: #558654
294 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
295 installed. Closes: #558782
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
299 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
302 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
303 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
304 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
305 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
306 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
310 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
312 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
313 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
314 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
315 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
319 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
322 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
323 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
327 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
329 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
333 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
335 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
336 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
337 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
338 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
339 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
340 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
341 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
342 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
343 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
344 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
345 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
346 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
347 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
348 time soon.) Closes: #554509
349 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
351 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
352 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
353 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
354 document id. Closes: #555677
355 * Typo. Closes: #555659
356 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
357 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
358 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
359 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
361 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
362 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
363 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
368 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
371 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
372 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
373 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
374 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
375 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
376 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
377 translation (#494300 part 2)
380 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
382 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
383 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
384 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
385 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
386 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
390 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
393 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
394 (It was only run once due to logging.)
395 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
396 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
397 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
398 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
399 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
400 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
401 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
402 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
403 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
404 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
408 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
412 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
415 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
416 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
420 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
423 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
424 flag with arch all/any packages.
425 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
426 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
427 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
428 situation. Closes: #540794
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
432 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
436 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
437 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
438 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
439 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
440 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
443 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
444 the default. Closes: #538201
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
449 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
453 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
454 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
455 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
456 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
457 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
459 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
460 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
461 * Above Closes: #491117
462 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
467 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
473 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
474 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
475 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
479 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
482 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
483 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
484 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
485 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
486 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
491 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
494 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
495 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
499 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
501 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
505 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
507 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
508 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
510 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
511 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
512 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
516 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
518 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
519 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
523 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
529 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
531 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
532 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
533 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
538 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
540 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
544 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
547 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
548 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
549 created by using `python' first during build and install.
551 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
556 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
558 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
562 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
564 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
565 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
569 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
571 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
575 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
577 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
581 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
583 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
584 contributed by Modestas Vainius
585 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
586 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
587 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
588 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
589 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
590 that support it. Closes: #480577
591 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
592 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
593 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
595 - Adds support for cmake.
596 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
597 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
599 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
601 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
602 that use them. The options are:
603 --sourcedir, --destdir
604 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
605 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
606 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
607 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
608 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
612 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
618 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
621 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
622 default. Closes: #537140
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
626 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
629 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
630 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
634 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
637 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
644 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
648 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
651 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
653 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
654 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
655 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
659 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
662 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
663 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
664 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
668 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
671 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
672 warning or deprecation message.
673 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
674 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
675 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
676 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
677 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
678 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
679 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
680 Closes: #534639, #357434
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
684 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
690 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
693 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
694 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
695 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
696 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
698 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
699 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
700 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
704 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
710 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
717 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
720 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
724 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
728 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
729 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
731 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
732 file support. Closes: #494914
733 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
737 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
740 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
741 parameters. Closes: #527256
742 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
743 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
744 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
748 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
752 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
753 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
754 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
758 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
761 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
762 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
763 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
767 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
770 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
771 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
773 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
774 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
775 by triggers). Closes: #521181
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
779 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
783 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
787 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
790 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
791 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
792 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
793 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
798 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
804 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
807 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
808 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
809 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
810 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
811 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
813 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
814 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
815 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
816 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
817 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
818 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
822 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
825 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
826 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
827 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
828 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
829 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
831 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
835 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
837 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
841 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
843 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
844 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
845 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
846 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
847 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
848 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
849 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
850 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
851 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
852 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
853 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
857 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
859 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
860 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
862 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
863 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
864 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
865 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
867 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
868 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
872 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
874 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
875 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
876 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
877 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
878 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
879 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
880 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
882 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
883 that uses them. Affected options are:
884 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
885 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
886 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
887 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
888 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
889 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
890 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
891 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
892 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
893 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
894 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
895 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
899 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
906 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
912 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
914 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
915 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
917 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
918 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
919 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
920 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
921 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
923 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
925 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
926 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
927 rules (see bug #509756).
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
931 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
937 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
938 * Typo. Closes: #493062
939 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
940 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
944 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
947 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
948 empty files. Closes: #490937
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
952 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
958 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
965 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
968 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
969 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
970 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
971 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
976 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
978 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
979 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
980 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
981 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
985 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
988 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
989 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
990 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
991 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
992 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
996 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1006 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1007 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1008 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1009 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1010 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1011 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1012 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1013 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1014 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1018 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1021 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1022 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1023 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1024 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1026 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1027 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1028 breaking backwards compatibility.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1032 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1035 message in perl 5.10.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1039 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1045 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1048 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1052 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1055 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1059 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1062 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1063 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1064 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1065 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1066 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1067 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1068 logging by dh_listpackages.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1072 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1075 run and there are no packages of that type.
1076 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1077 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1078 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1079 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1081 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1082 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1086 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1089 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1090 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1094 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1097 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1098 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1100 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1101 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1102 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1103 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1104 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1105 planned but not yet implemented.)
1106 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1107 if the Makefile has such a target.
1108 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1109 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1110 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1111 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1112 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1113 but not yet implemented.)
1114 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1115 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1116 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1117 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1118 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1120 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1122 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1123 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1125 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1126 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1127 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1132 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1135 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1136 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1140 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1142 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1143 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1144 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1148 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1154 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1160 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1163 just those installed by the program.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1167 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1170 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1171 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1175 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1178 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1179 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1180 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1181 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1185 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1188 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1189 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1193 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1196 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1197 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1201 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1204 with policy. Closes: #461392
1205 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1206 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1207 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1208 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1209 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1213 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1216 Closes: #460340, #460351
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1220 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1223 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1224 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1225 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1226 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1230 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1233 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1234 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1235 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1236 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1237 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1238 package build directory won't work.
1239 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1240 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1241 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1242 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1243 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1244 mode. Closes: #459426
1245 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1250 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1253 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1257 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1261 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1262 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1263 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1264 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1265 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1266 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1270 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1273 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1274 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1275 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1276 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1280 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1283 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1284 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1285 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1286 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1287 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1291 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1294 debian/package.triggers files.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1298 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1301 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1305 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1308 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1309 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1310 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1311 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1316 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1319 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1323 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1326 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1327 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1329 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1334 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1338 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1339 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1340 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1344 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1351 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1358 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1361 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1363 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1364 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1365 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1367 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1368 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1369 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1373 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1376 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1377 * Update urls to web page.
1378 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1379 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1380 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1381 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1385 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1388 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1389 - typo in alternatives call
1390 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1392 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1393 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1397 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1400 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1405 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1411 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1417 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1420 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1422 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1423 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1424 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1425 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1426 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1427 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1428 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1429 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1430 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1431 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1432 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1436 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1439 package install. Closes: #415717
1440 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1441 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1442 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1443 script and then remove the python files.
1444 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1445 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1446 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1447 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1448 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1449 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1450 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1451 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1452 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1453 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1454 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1455 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1456 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1460 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Correct typo in french translation
1466 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1467 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1469 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1471 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1472 Closes: #406921, #381940
1473 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1475 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1476 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1477 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1478 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1479 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1480 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1481 specified). Closes: #381851
1482 * Misc minor changes.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1486 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1493 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1494 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1498 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1504 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1505 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1508 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1509 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1511 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1512 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1513 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1514 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1518 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1521 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1524 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1528 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1534 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1540 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1541 a difficult situation.
1542 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1543 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1544 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1545 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1546 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1547 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1548 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1549 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1550 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1551 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1555 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Non-maintainer upload.
1558 * Update of dh_python
1559 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1560 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1562 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1563 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1564 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1565 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1566 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1568 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1570 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Non-maintainer upload.
1573 * Update of dh_python
1574 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1575 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1576 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1577 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1578 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1579 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1580 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1581 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1582 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1583 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1585 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1586 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1587 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1588 the not too-distant future).
1589 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1590 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1591 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1592 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1593 thus made the build fail.
1595 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1597 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Non-maintainer upload.
1600 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1602 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1604 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1607 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1608 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1609 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1610 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1611 package. Closes: #301424
1612 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1613 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1614 fonts). Closes: #372686
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1618 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1624 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1625 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1626 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1627 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1628 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1629 above, but already depends on that.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1633 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1636 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1637 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1638 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1639 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1640 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1644 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1650 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1656 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1657 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1661 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1664 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1668 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1672 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1673 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1674 new version (0.24.1).
1675 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1676 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1679 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1680 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1681 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1682 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1683 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1684 new directory on their own.
1685 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1686 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1690 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1693 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1694 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1695 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1696 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1700 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1703 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1704 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1705 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1706 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1707 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1711 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1717 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1721 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1722 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1726 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1727 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1731 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1733 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1734 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1736 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1737 ignored. Closes: #337664
1739 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1744 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1750 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1755 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1756 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1757 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1758 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1759 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1760 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1761 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1765 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1768 version. Closes: #350607
1769 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1770 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1771 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1772 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1776 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1779 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1780 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1781 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1785 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1792 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1798 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1801 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1805 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1808 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1809 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1810 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1811 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1812 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1813 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1817 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1820 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1821 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1826 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1829 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1836 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1840 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1843 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1844 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1845 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1846 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1847 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1848 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1852 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1856 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1857 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1858 link. Closes: #346405
1859 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1861 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1862 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1863 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1864 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1865 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1866 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1867 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1871 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1878 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1884 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1887 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1891 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1894 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1899 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1903 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1904 installed. Closes: #342033
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1908 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1911 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1912 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1913 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1918 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1924 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1930 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1934 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1935 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1936 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1940 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1943 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1948 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1955 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1961 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1964 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1965 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1966 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1967 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1968 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1969 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1970 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1972 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1976 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1979 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1980 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1987 in standard man dirs.
1988 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2001 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2020 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2023 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2024 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2031 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2032 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2033 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2035 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2037 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2052 mode. Closes: #324161
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2059 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2060 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2061 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2062 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2070 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2071 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2072 is necesary for sanity.
2073 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2074 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2081 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2082 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2089 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2102 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2103 released, so use at your own risk.
2104 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2105 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2107 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2108 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2109 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2110 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2111 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2112 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2113 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2114 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2115 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2116 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2117 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2118 including twice per config file line now..
2119 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2120 and simplfy the rules file.
2121 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2122 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2123 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2125 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2126 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2133 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2140 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2147 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2154 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2155 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2156 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2157 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2158 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2159 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2166 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2167 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2168 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2173 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2176 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2177 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2182 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2185 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2186 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2187 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2192 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2195 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2196 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2197 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2201 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2207 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2214 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2217 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2218 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2219 unknown. Closes: #282924
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Spanish man page updates.
2233 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2247 * dh_desktop: reindent
2248 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2249 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2261 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2267 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2271 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2274 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2275 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2279 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2301 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2308 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2309 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2310 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2311 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2312 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2313 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2315 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2316 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2317 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2318 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2319 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2320 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2321 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2322 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2323 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2324 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2325 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2326 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2327 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2328 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2329 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2330 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2344 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2348 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2351 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2358 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2365 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2375 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2381 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2387 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2390 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2391 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2392 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2396 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2399 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2406 but occasionally right and necessary.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2413 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2414 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2415 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2416 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2417 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2421 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2424 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2426 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2427 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2428 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2429 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2430 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2431 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2432 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2433 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2434 postinst scripts for udebs.
2435 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2439 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2442 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2444 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2445 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2449 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2462 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2469 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2472 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2476 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2479 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2483 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2486 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2489 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2490 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2494 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2500 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2503 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2507 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2510 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2511 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2512 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2514 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2516 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2517 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2518 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2522 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2525 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2533 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2534 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2535 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2540 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2546 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2555 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2556 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2557 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2558 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2559 associated -dbg packages.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2566 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2573 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2580 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2587 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2595 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2602 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2610 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2618 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2619 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2620 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2621 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2622 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2623 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2624 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2625 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2626 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2627 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2631 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2634 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2642 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2643 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2650 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2651 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2659 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2666 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2673 out section number. Closes: #204731
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2699 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2700 removal. Closes: #204286
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2707 renaming. Closes: #203548
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2714 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2715 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2725 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2731 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2737 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2740 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2741 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2742 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2746 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2749 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2750 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2770 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2775 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2778 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2785 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2787 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2788 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2792 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2795 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2800 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2803 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2815 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2822 it break hard links (see #188663).
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2829 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2843 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2844 debconf-mergetemplates
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2848 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2851 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2855 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2858 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2862 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2865 * Update debhelper(1).
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2869 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2872 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2873 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2874 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2875 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2876 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2880 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2883 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2884 the shell. Closes: #178524
2885 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2889 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2892 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2896 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2899 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2903 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2906 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2907 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2908 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2909 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2914 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2917 files from installation.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2921 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2924 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2925 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2929 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2932 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2936 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2939 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2943 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2949 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2955 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2959 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2960 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2962 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2966 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2969 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2970 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2971 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2972 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2976 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2979 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2983 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2986 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2987 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2991 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2995 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3006 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3010 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3011 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3012 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3020 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3021 practice. Closes: #163303
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3041 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3043 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3044 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3045 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3046 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3047 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3051 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3054 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3059 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3065 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3072 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3075 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3108 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3109 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3110 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3111 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3122 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3129 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3132 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3133 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3140 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3141 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3142 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3143 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3144 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3148 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3151 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3153 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3161 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3165 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3168 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3169 right thing. Closes: #150644
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3173 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Stupid, evil typo.
3176 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3180 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3187 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3190 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3191 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3202 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3205 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3209 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3212 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3213 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3218 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3221 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3225 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3231 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3234 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3235 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3239 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3245 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Removing perl warning message.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3251 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3254 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3255 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3256 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3257 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3258 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3259 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3260 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3261 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3265 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3271 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3278 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3281 debconf-mergetemplate.
3282 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3283 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3287 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3290 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3291 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3292 dh_install, which ...
3293 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3294 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3295 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3296 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3297 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3298 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3299 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3300 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3301 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3302 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3303 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3304 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3305 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3306 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3307 other minor changes.
3308 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3309 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3310 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3311 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3312 course there's -X ..)
3313 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3314 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3315 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3317 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3318 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3319 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3320 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3321 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3326 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3332 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3335 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3339 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3345 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3351 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3357 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3363 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3366 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3367 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3368 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3369 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3371 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3372 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3376 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3382 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3385 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3389 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3392 upset. Closes: #131322
3394 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3396 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3399 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3400 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3401 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3402 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3403 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3404 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3405 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3406 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3407 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3408 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3409 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3410 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3411 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3412 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3413 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3415 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3419 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3422 - Better indenting of generated code.
3423 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3427 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3431 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3432 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3433 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3434 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3435 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3436 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3437 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3441 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3444 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3448 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3451 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3452 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3453 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3454 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3455 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3456 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3457 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3458 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3459 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3460 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3461 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3462 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3463 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3464 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3465 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3470 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3476 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3479 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3480 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3484 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3487 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3488 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3492 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3498 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3501 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3502 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3503 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3504 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3505 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3510 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3516 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3519 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3523 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3526 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3531 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3537 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3540 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3544 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3550 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3554 Also some indentation fixes.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3558 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3561 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3562 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3563 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3564 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3565 Closes: #106514, #85520
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3569 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3575 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3587 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3593 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3599 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3602 change it in debhelper v4..
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3606 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3612 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3615 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3619 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3622 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3626 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3632 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3635 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3636 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3637 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3638 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3639 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3640 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3641 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3642 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3643 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3644 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3645 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3646 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3650 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3653 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3657 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3664 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3667 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3668 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3669 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3670 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3671 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3672 program those options go to. So, for example,
3673 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3674 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3675 something complex. Closes: #89311
3676 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3680 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3683 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3684 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3685 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3689 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3692 through loop. Closes: #98598
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3696 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Missing semi-colon.
3699 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3700 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3704 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3707 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3708 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3709 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3713 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3716 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3717 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3721 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3724 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3728 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3731 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3732 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3736 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3739 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3740 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3741 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3745 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3748 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3749 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3750 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3754 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3757 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3761 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3767 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3773 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3779 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3785 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3788 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3792 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3795 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3796 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3797 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3798 followed. Closes: #85483
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3802 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3804 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3805 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3806 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3810 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3813 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3814 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3815 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3816 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3817 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3818 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3819 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3820 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3821 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3822 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3823 Closes: #88464, #77743
3824 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3825 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3826 us to deal with that gracefully.
3827 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3829 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3830 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3831 a while, Closes: #51225
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3835 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3841 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3844 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3848 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3852 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3857 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3860 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3861 don't make packlist files.
3862 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3863 debhelper coding standards.
3864 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3865 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3869 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3872 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3876 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3879 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3880 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3881 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3882 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3883 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3884 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3885 but is mildly deprecated.
3886 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3887 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3888 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3889 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3890 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3891 switching to statoverrides..
3892 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3893 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3894 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3895 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3896 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3897 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3899 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3900 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3901 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3902 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3903 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3904 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3905 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3906 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3907 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3909 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3910 variable names, pod man pages).
3911 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3912 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3913 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3914 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3915 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3916 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3917 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3927 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3937 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3943 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3944 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3945 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3949 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3951 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3952 they were previously ignored.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3958 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3959 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3965 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3966 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3967 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3973 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3979 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3980 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3984 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3986 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3987 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3988 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3989 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3990 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3991 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3992 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3993 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3994 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3995 it is an obsolete program.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3999 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4001 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4005 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4009 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4011 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4015 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4017 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4019 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4021 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4025 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * typo: Closes, #78567
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4037 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4043 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4049 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4052 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4053 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4054 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4055 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4056 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4063 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4068 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4071 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4072 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4073 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4074 backwards-compatibility.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4078 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4081 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4082 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4083 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4084 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4085 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4086 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4088 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4089 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4090 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4092 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4094 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4095 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4096 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4097 should now be raised to severity important..
4098 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4099 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4103 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4106 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4111 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4117 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4123 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4129 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4136 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4139 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4140 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4141 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4142 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4146 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4155 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4156 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4157 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4158 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4159 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4160 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4165 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4168 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4172 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4178 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4181 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4189 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4190 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4191 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4192 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4200 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4203 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4206 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4207 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4210 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4212 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4213 the TODO entry about it.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4227 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4228 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4235 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4236 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4237 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4238 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4258 (this appears to be logal).
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4265 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4266 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4267 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4268 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4272 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4281 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4282 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4283 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4284 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4297 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4311 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4312 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4313 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4318 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4334 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4335 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4336 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4337 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4338 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4339 notice until v2 is complete.
4340 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4341 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4342 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4343 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4344 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4345 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4347 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4348 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4349 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4350 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4370 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4381 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4384 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4385 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4386 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4387 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4392 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4395 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4396 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4397 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4405 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4406 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4413 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4420 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4434 depend on the build and install targets.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4441 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4458 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4467 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4468 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4469 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4470 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4471 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4472 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4474 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4475 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4476 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4477 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4478 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4479 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4480 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4484 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4490 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4496 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4499 right place. Closes: #55065
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4503 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4510 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4513 * Copyright date updates.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4517 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4520 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4525 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4531 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4538 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4544 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4550 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4556 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4559 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4560 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4561 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4562 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4563 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4564 bits until all files have been registered.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4568 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installmanpages:
4571 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4572 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4573 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4574 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4575 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4576 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4577 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4578 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4579 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4580 otherwise change the result at all.
4582 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4583 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4584 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4585 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4586 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4591 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4597 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4600 act on files that don't exist.
4601 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4602 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4603 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4605 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4606 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4607 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4608 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4612 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4618 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4624 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4627 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4631 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4634 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4636 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4637 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4638 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4642 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4645 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4646 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4647 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4648 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4649 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4650 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4651 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4653 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4655 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4659 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4666 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4681 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4685 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4700 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4701 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4702 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4703 I made some changes, though:
4704 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4705 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4706 that is a clear violation of policy.
4707 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4708 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4709 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4710 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4711 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4712 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4713 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4714 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4715 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4717 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4727 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4730 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4737 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4738 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4759 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4760 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4761 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4762 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4763 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4764 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4765 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4779 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4780 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4793 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4800 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4801 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4807 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4812 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4816 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4820 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4823 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4824 for the dependancies to be generated.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4831 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4838 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4839 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4840 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4848 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4849 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4853 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4868 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4872 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4881 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4882 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4883 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4884 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4885 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4886 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4887 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4888 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4889 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4890 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4891 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4892 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4899 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4900 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4902 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4903 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4904 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4905 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4906 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4907 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4909 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4910 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4917 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4931 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4936 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4939 for building debhelper.
4940 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4954 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4961 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4962 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4963 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4964 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4965 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4966 it's always available.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4973 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4974 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4975 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4979 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4982 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4983 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4993 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4996 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5000 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5006 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5009 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5010 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5011 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5015 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5018 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5026 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5027 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5029 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5030 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5040 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5049 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5053 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5056 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5057 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5059 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5066 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5067 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5068 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5075 things if CDPATH is set.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5088 seems to make sense for the transition.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5092 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5095 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5100 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5103 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5104 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5111 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5118 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5119 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5120 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5121 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5125 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5131 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5134 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5135 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5136 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5137 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5138 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5139 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5140 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5141 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5142 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5143 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5148 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5151 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5152 * README: mention doc/v2
5153 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5154 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5160 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5161 be using this script RSN.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5165 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5168 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5169 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5170 more than 1 init script.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5177 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * Changed perl version detection.
5184 * Changed call to find.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5191 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5193 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5198 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * Really include dh_installpam.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5204 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5207 * Wrote man page for same.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5214 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5215 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5230 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5231 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5232 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5233 x bit was being set!
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5237 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5240 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5241 well. (Closes: 38900)
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5248 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5249 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5253 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5259 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5272 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5275 help from Julian Gilbey.
5276 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5277 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5278 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5279 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5280 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5281 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5282 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5287 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5293 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5300 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5306 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5312 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5315 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5322 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5329 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5333 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5339 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5342 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5346 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5352 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5358 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5361 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5362 may be deleted. (#35845)
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5366 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * Various man page enhancements.
5369 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5377 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5378 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5385 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5386 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5387 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5389 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5390 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5401 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * Another very minor typo fix.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5407 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * Very minor typo fix.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5416 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5417 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5430 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5431 variables properly (#34850).
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5441 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5444 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5445 (automatically generated by build process).
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5451 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5458 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5459 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5461 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5468 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * README: minor typo fix.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5478 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5481 leave it at that. :-)
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5485 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5491 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5497 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5500 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5501 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5502 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5506 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5509 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5513 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5516 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5523 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5524 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5525 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5526 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5533 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5534 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5535 Craig Small for spotting this.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5542 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5543 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5547 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5556 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5560 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5562 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5563 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5564 working on the last version of debhelper.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5568 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5571 being made. (#23255)
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5575 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5584 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5588 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5591 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5592 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5593 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5594 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5598 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5601 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5602 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5603 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5604 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5606 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5607 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5609 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5620 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5626 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5629 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5630 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5631 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5632 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5633 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5634 suidregister actually supports it.
5635 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5636 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5640 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5647 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5650 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5651 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5652 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5653 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5654 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5655 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5656 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5660 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5662 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5663 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5667 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5670 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5671 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5672 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5673 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5677 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5680 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5682 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5683 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5684 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5685 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5686 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5687 effect, either. (#30118)
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5691 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5697 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5700 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5701 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5705 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5711 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5714 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5715 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5716 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5717 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5721 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5724 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5725 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5729 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5735 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5738 packages, painlessly.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5742 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5754 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5760 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * The perl conversion is complete.
5764 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5766 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5767 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5768 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5773 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5776 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5777 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5778 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5782 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5785 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5787 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5789 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5790 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5794 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5797 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5798 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5808 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5811 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5812 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5813 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5814 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5815 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5819 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5822 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5823 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5824 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5825 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5829 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5832 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5839 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5840 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5841 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5842 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5843 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5844 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5845 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5846 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5850 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5856 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5859 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5860 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5861 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5866 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5869 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5873 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5876 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5880 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5883 sections of shared libraries.
5884 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5885 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5886 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5887 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5888 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5889 things you don't want them to.
5890 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5891 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5895 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5898 shared libraries. (#26414)
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5902 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5904 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5905 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5906 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5907 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5911 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5915 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5917 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5918 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5919 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5920 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5921 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5925 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5928 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5932 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5935 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5936 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5941 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5944 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5948 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5951 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5952 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5953 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5954 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5955 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5957 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5958 remove debian/files properly.
5959 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5960 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5961 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5962 * Removed bogus menu file.
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5966 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5969 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5973 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5976 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5977 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5978 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5979 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5980 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5981 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5985 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5988 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5989 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5990 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5991 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5995 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6002 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6005 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6006 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6008 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6009 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6010 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6011 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6012 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6013 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6017 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6020 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6021 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6022 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6023 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6024 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6025 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6026 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6027 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6028 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6029 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6030 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6031 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6032 passed any switches.
6033 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6037 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6040 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6041 at all for a long while.
6042 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6043 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6044 large chunks in the process.
6045 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6046 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6047 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6052 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6055 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6057 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6062 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6065 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6066 that don't always have the same files in them.
6067 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6068 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6069 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6073 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6077 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6078 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6079 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6080 updating 27 man pages.
6081 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6082 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6083 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6084 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6085 programs act on. (#25247)
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6089 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6093 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6094 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6095 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6096 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6097 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6098 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6103 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6110 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6117 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6120 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6124 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6130 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6133 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6134 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6135 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6136 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6137 package by accident.
6138 * Is version 1.0 next?
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6142 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6145 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6146 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6150 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6153 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6154 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6155 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6156 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6157 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6159 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6164 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6167 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6168 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6172 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6175 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6179 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6182 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6183 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6188 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6194 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6197 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6198 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6203 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6209 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6212 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6213 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6214 past week. Thanks, guys!
6216 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6217 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6218 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6219 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6220 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6221 would do in the same situation.
6222 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6223 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6225 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6227 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6228 permissions changed.
6229 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6230 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6231 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6232 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6233 files are treated identically.
6234 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6235 * Minor man page fixes.
6236 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6237 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6238 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6242 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6244 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6245 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6246 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6247 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6248 use -X multiple times, too.
6249 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6250 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6254 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6257 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6258 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6262 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6265 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6269 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6272 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6273 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6274 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6275 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6276 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6277 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6278 shape if you're starting a new package.
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6282 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6285 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6289 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6292 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6293 because of missing symlinks.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6297 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6303 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6306 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6307 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6308 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6309 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6310 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6312 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6313 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6317 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6319 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6320 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6321 to be changed after the fact :-)
6322 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6326 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6328 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6329 no version string after the -V.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6333 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6335 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6336 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6341 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6343 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6344 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6348 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6351 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6352 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6353 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6354 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6355 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6356 I always welcome corrections!
6358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6360 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6362 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6366 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6369 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6370 * Documented this new switch.
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6374 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6377 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6378 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6379 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6380 no packages use the old behavior.
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6384 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6387 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6388 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6392 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6395 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6399 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6405 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6408 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6412 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6415 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6416 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6417 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6421 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6427 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6430 into the source package by accident.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6434 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6437 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6438 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6439 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6440 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6441 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6442 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6447 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6451 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6452 inspired to implement some of it.
6453 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6457 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6460 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6464 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6466 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6467 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6468 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6472 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6475 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6476 have done.) (#17598)
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6480 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6486 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6488 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6492 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6495 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6499 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6502 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6503 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6507 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6510 argument processor in perl.
6511 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6512 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6513 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6514 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6518 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6521 type directories. (#16933)
6522 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6523 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6524 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6525 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6526 are supported. (#16935)
6527 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6532 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6534 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6535 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6539 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6543 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6544 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6545 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6546 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6547 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6548 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6552 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6554 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6555 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6556 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6558 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6559 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6560 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6561 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6562 a given package, or -i or -a.
6563 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6564 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6565 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6566 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6567 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6568 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6569 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6570 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6571 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6573 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6574 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6575 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6579 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6581 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6582 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6583 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6591 does not have a section.
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6595 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6598 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6599 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6600 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6604 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6606 * Fixed typo #16215.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6613 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6614 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6615 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6616 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6617 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6622 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6624 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6625 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6626 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6627 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6632 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6638 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6640 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6644 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6646 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6647 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6648 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6649 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6650 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6651 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6652 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6656 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6658 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6662 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6665 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6669 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6672 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6673 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6674 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6678 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6681 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6685 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6691 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6694 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6698 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6701 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6705 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6711 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6714 postinst, postrm, etc.
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6718 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6720 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6724 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6726 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6727 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6728 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6729 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6730 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6731 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6735 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6737 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6738 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6739 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6743 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6746 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6750 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6753 installing package files into.
6754 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6759 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6763 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6767 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6769 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6773 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6775 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6776 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6780 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6783 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6784 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6785 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6786 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6790 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6792 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6793 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6794 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6795 multiple binary packages.
6796 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6797 should rebuild them with this version.
6798 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6802 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6804 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6805 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6809 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6811 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6812 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6816 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6818 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6819 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6820 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6821 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6822 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6823 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6824 debian/README.debian.
6825 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6826 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6827 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6828 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6829 in a few situations.)
6831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6833 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6835 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6839 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6841 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6845 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6847 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6848 * Fixed several man pages.
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6852 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6855 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6856 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6860 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6862 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6863 is ready for general use.
6864 * Added man pages for all commands.
6865 * Multiple binary package support.
6866 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6867 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6868 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6870 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6871 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6872 auto-installed as parameters.
6873 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6875 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6878 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6879 the package build directory it is to act on.
6880 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6881 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6882 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6886 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6888 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6889 ready to replace debstd.
6891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400