1 debhelper (5.0.64) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
4 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
5 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
6 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
7 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
8 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
9 package build directory won't work.
10 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
11 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
12 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
13 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:45:39 -0500
17 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
20 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
24 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
28 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
29 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
30 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
31 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
32 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
33 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
37 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
40 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
41 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
42 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
43 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
47 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
50 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
51 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
52 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
53 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
54 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
58 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
61 debian/package.triggers files.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
65 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
68 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
72 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
75 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
76 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
77 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
78 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
83 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
86 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
90 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
93 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
94 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
96 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
101 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
105 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
106 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
107 * Typo. Closes: #441272
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
111 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
118 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
125 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
128 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
130 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
131 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
132 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
134 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
135 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
136 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
140 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
143 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
144 * Update urls to web page.
145 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
147 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
148 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
152 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
155 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
156 - typo in alternatives call
157 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
159 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
160 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
164 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
167 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
172 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
178 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
184 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
187 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
189 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
190 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
191 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
192 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
193 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
194 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
195 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
196 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
197 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
198 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
199 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
203 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
206 package install. Closes: #415717
207 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
208 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
209 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
210 script and then remove the python files.
211 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
212 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
213 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
214 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
215 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
216 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
217 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
218 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
219 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
220 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
221 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
222 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
223 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
227 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Correct typo in french translation
233 * Typo. Closes: #400571
234 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
236 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
238 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
239 Closes: #406921, #381940
240 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
242 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
243 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
244 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
245 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
246 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
247 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
248 specified). Closes: #381851
249 * Misc minor changes.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
253 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
260 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
261 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
265 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
271 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
272 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
275 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
276 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
278 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
279 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
280 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
281 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
285 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
288 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
291 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
295 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
301 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
307 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
308 a difficult situation.
309 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
310 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
311 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
312 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
313 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
314 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
315 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
316 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
317 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
318 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
322 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Non-maintainer upload.
325 * Update of dh_python
326 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
327 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
329 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
330 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
331 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
332 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
333 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
335 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
337 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Non-maintainer upload.
340 * Update of dh_python
341 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
342 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
343 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
344 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
345 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
346 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
347 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
348 specific python version. Closes: #373853
349 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
350 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
352 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
353 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
354 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
355 the not too-distant future).
356 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
357 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
358 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
359 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
360 thus made the build fail.
362 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
364 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Non-maintainer upload.
367 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
369 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
371 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
374 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
375 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
376 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
377 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
378 package. Closes: #301424
379 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
380 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
381 fonts). Closes: #372686
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
385 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
391 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
392 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
393 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
394 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
395 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
396 above, but already depends on that.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
400 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
403 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
404 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
405 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
406 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
407 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
411 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
417 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
423 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
424 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
428 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
431 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
435 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
439 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
440 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
441 new version (0.24.1).
442 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
443 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
446 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
447 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
448 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
449 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
450 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
451 new directory on their own.
452 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
453 * Fix broken directory removal code.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
457 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
460 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
461 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
462 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
463 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
467 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
470 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
471 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
472 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
473 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
474 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
478 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
484 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Typo. Closes: #358904
488 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
489 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
493 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
494 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
498 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
500 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
501 || exit 0 instead of the intended
503 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
504 ignored. Closes: #337664
506 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
511 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
517 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
522 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
523 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
524 the dh_installdebconf manpage
525 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
526 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
527 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
528 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
532 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
535 version. Closes: #350607
536 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
537 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
538 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
539 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
543 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
546 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
547 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
548 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
552 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
559 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Minor bug fix from last release.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
565 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
568 language guessing. Closes: #193221
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
572 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
575 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
576 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
577 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
578 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
579 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
580 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
584 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
587 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
588 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
593 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
596 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
600 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
603 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
607 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
610 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
611 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
612 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
613 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
614 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
615 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
619 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
622 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
623 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
624 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
625 link. Closes: #346405
626 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
629 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
630 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
631 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
632 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
633 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
634 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
638 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
645 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
647 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
651 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
654 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
658 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
661 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
666 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
670 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
671 installed. Closes: #342033
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
675 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
678 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
679 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
680 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
685 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
691 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
697 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
701 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
702 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
703 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
707 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
710 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
715 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
722 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
728 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
730 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
731 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
732 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
733 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
734 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
735 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
736 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
737 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
739 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
743 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
746 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
747 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
751 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
754 in standard man dirs.
755 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
759 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
765 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
768 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
773 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
780 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
787 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
790 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
791 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
795 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
797 * NMU with maintainer approval.
798 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
799 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
800 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
802 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
804 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
810 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
816 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
819 mode. Closes: #324161
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
823 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
826 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
827 behavior change. Closes: #249815
828 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
829 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
834 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
837 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
838 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
839 is necesary for sanity.
840 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
841 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
846 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
848 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
849 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
853 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
856 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
860 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
866 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
869 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
870 released, so use at your own risk.
871 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
872 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
874 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
875 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
876 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
877 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
878 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
879 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
880 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
881 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
882 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
883 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
884 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
885 including twice per config file line now..
886 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
887 and simplfy the rules file.
888 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
889 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
890 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
892 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
893 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
897 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
900 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
904 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
907 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
911 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
913 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
914 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
918 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
921 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
922 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
923 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
924 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
925 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
926 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
930 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
933 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
934 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
935 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
940 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
943 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
944 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
949 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
952 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
953 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
954 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
959 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
962 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
963 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
964 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
968 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
974 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
981 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
984 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
985 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
986 unknown. Closes: #282924
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
990 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
997 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Spanish man page updates.
1000 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1005 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1011 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1014 * dh_desktop: reindent
1015 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1016 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1020 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1026 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1028 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1032 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1034 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1038 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1041 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1042 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1046 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1052 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1058 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1065 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1068 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1072 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1075 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1076 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1077 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1078 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1079 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1080 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1082 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1083 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1084 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1085 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1086 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1087 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1088 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1089 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1090 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1091 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1092 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1093 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1094 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1095 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1096 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1097 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1101 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1108 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1111 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1115 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1118 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1122 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1125 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1129 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1132 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1136 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1142 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1148 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1154 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1157 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1158 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1159 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1163 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1166 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1170 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1173 but occasionally right and necessary.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1177 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1180 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1181 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1182 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1183 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1184 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1188 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1191 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1193 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1194 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1195 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1196 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1197 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1198 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1199 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1200 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1201 postinst scripts for udebs.
1202 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1206 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1209 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1211 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1212 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1216 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1222 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1229 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1236 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1239 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1243 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1246 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1250 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1253 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1256 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1257 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1261 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1267 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1270 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1274 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1277 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1278 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1279 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1281 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1283 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1284 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1285 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1289 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1292 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1297 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1300 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1301 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1302 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1307 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1313 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1319 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1322 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1323 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1324 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1325 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1326 associated -dbg packages.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1333 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1337 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1340 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1344 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1347 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1351 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1354 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1362 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1369 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1374 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1377 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1381 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1385 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1386 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1387 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1388 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1389 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1390 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1391 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1392 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1393 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1394 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1398 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1401 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1406 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1409 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1410 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1417 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1418 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1426 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1430 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1433 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1440 out section number. Closes: #204731
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1451 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1463 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1466 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1467 removal. Closes: #204286
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1471 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1474 renaming. Closes: #203548
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1478 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1481 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1482 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1486 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1492 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1498 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1504 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1507 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1508 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1509 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1516 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1517 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1537 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1542 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1545 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1549 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1552 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1554 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1555 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1559 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1562 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1567 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1570 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1574 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1580 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1582 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1586 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1589 it break hard links (see #188663).
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1593 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1596 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1600 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1606 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1610 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1611 debconf-mergetemplates
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1615 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1618 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1622 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1625 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1629 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1632 * Update debhelper(1).
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1636 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1639 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1640 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1641 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1642 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1643 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1647 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1650 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1651 the shell. Closes: #178524
1652 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1656 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1659 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1663 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1666 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1670 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1673 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1674 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1675 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1676 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1681 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1684 files from installation.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1688 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1691 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1692 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1696 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1699 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1703 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1706 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1716 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1722 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1726 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1727 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1729 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1736 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1737 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1738 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1739 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1743 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1746 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1750 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1753 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1754 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1758 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1762 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1767 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1773 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1777 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1778 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1779 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1784 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1787 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1788 practice. Closes: #163303
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1792 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1808 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1810 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1811 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1812 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1813 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1814 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1818 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1821 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1842 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1859 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1875 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1876 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1877 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1878 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1899 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1900 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1904 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1907 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1908 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1909 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1910 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1911 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1918 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1920 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1928 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1935 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1936 right thing. Closes: #150644
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Stupid, evil typo.
1943 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1957 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1958 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1972 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1979 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1980 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1988 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2001 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2002 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Removing perl warning message.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2021 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2022 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2023 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2024 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2025 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2026 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2027 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2028 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2032 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2038 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2048 debconf-mergetemplate.
2049 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2050 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2057 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2058 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2059 dh_install, which ...
2060 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2061 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2062 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2063 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2064 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2065 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2066 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2067 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2068 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2069 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2070 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2071 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2072 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2073 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2074 other minor changes.
2075 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2076 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2077 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2078 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2079 course there's -X ..)
2080 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2081 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2082 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2084 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2085 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2086 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2087 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2088 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2093 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2099 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2102 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2106 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2112 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2118 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2124 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2130 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2133 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2134 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2135 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2136 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2138 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2139 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2143 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2149 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2152 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2156 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2159 upset. Closes: #131322
2161 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2163 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2166 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2167 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2168 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2169 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2170 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2171 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2172 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2173 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2174 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2175 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2176 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2177 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2178 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2179 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2180 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2182 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2186 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2189 - Better indenting of generated code.
2190 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2194 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2198 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2199 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2200 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2201 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2202 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2203 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2204 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2208 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2211 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2215 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2218 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2219 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2220 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2221 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2222 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2223 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2224 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2225 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2226 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2227 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2228 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2229 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2230 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2231 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2232 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2237 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2243 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2246 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2247 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2251 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2254 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2255 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2259 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2265 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2268 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2269 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2270 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2271 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2272 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2277 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2283 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2286 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2290 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2293 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2298 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2304 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2307 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2311 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2317 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2321 Also some indentation fixes.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2325 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2328 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2329 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2330 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2331 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2332 Closes: #106514, #85520
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2336 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2342 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2348 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2354 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2360 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2366 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2369 change it in debhelper v4..
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2373 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2379 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2382 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2386 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2389 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2393 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2399 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2402 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2403 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2404 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2405 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2406 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2407 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2408 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2409 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2410 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2411 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2412 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2413 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2417 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2420 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2424 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2431 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2434 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2435 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2436 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2437 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2438 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2439 program those options go to. So, for example,
2440 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2441 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2442 something complex. Closes: #89311
2443 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2447 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2450 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2451 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2452 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2456 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2459 through loop. Closes: #98598
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2463 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Missing semi-colon.
2466 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2467 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2471 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2474 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2475 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2476 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2480 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2483 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2484 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2488 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2491 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2495 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2498 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2499 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2503 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2506 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2507 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2508 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2512 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2515 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2516 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2517 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2521 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2524 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2528 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2534 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2540 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2546 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2552 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2555 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2559 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2562 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2563 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2564 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2565 followed. Closes: #85483
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2569 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2571 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2572 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2573 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2577 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2580 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2581 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2582 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2583 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2584 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2585 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2586 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2587 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2588 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2589 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2590 Closes: #88464, #77743
2591 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2592 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2593 us to deal with that gracefully.
2594 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2596 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2597 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2598 a while, Closes: #51225
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2602 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2608 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2611 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2615 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2619 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2624 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2627 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2628 don't make packlist files.
2629 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2630 debhelper coding standards.
2631 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2632 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2636 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2639 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2643 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2646 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2647 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2648 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2649 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2650 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2651 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2652 but is mildly deprecated.
2653 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2654 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2655 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2656 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2657 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2658 switching to statoverrides..
2659 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2660 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2661 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2662 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2663 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2664 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2666 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2667 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2668 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2669 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2670 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2671 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2672 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2673 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2674 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2676 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2677 variable names, pod man pages).
2678 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2679 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2680 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2681 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2682 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2683 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2684 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2688 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2694 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2701 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2704 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2708 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2710 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2711 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2712 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2716 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2718 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2719 they were previously ignored.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2723 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2725 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2726 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2730 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2732 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2733 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2734 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2738 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2740 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2744 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2746 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2747 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2751 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2753 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2754 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2755 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2756 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2757 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2758 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2759 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2760 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2761 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2762 it is an obsolete program.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2766 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2768 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2772 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2776 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2778 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2782 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2784 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2786 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2788 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2792 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2798 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * typo: Closes, #78567
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2804 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2810 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2816 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2819 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2820 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2821 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2822 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2823 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2827 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2830 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2835 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2838 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2839 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2840 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2841 backwards-compatability.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2845 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2848 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2849 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2850 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2851 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2852 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2853 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2855 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2856 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2857 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2859 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2861 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2862 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2863 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2864 should now be raised to severity important..
2865 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2866 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2870 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2873 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2878 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2884 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2890 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2896 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2903 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2906 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2907 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2908 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2909 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2913 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2919 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2922 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2923 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2924 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2925 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2926 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2927 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2932 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2935 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2939 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2945 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2948 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2953 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2956 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2957 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2958 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2959 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2963 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2967 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2970 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2973 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2974 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2977 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2979 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2980 the TODO entry about it.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2984 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2991 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2994 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2995 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2999 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3002 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3003 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3004 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3005 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3009 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3015 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3022 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3025 (this appears to be logal).
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3029 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3032 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3033 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3034 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3035 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3039 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3045 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3048 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3049 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3050 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3051 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3055 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3061 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3064 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3068 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3075 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3078 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3079 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3080 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3085 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3092 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3098 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3101 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3102 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3103 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3104 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3105 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3106 notice until v2 is complete.
3107 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3108 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3109 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3110 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3111 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3112 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3114 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3115 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3116 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3117 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3121 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3127 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3134 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3137 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3141 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3151 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3152 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3153 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3154 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3159 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3162 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3163 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3164 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3169 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3172 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3173 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3177 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3180 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3184 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3187 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3191 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3198 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3201 depend on the build and install targets.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3205 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3208 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3212 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3219 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3225 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3234 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3235 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3236 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3237 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3238 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3239 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3241 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3242 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3243 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3244 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3245 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3246 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3247 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3251 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3266 right place. Closes: #55065
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3277 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3280 * Copyright date updates.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3284 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3287 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3298 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3305 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3311 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3317 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3323 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3326 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3327 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3328 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3329 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3330 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3331 bits until all files have been registered.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3335 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_installmanpages:
3338 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3339 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3340 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3341 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3342 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3343 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3344 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3345 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3346 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3347 otherwise change the result at all.
3349 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3350 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3351 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3352 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3353 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3358 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3367 act on files that don't exist.
3368 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3369 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3370 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3372 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3373 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3374 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3375 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3379 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3385 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3391 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3394 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3398 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3401 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3403 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3404 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3405 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3409 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3412 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3413 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3414 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3415 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3416 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3417 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3418 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3420 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3422 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3433 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3439 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3445 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3448 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3452 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3458 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3464 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3467 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3468 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3469 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3470 I made some changes, though:
3471 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3472 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3473 that is a clear violation of policy.
3474 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3475 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3476 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3477 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3478 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3479 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3480 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3481 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3482 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3484 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3488 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3497 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3504 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3505 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3510 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3516 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3526 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3527 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3528 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3529 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3530 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3531 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3532 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3536 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3542 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3546 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3547 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3551 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3557 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3560 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3564 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3567 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3568 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3572 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3574 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3583 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3587 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3590 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3591 for the dependancies to be generated.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3598 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3605 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3606 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3607 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3612 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3615 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3616 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3620 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3626 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3635 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3648 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3649 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3650 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3651 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3652 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3653 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3654 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3655 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3656 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3657 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3658 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3659 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3666 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3667 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3669 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3670 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3671 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3672 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3673 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3674 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3676 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3677 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3681 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3684 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3698 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3703 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3706 for building debhelper.
3707 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3721 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3728 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3729 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3730 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3731 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3732 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3733 it's always available.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3740 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3741 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3742 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3749 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3750 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3754 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3760 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3763 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3773 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3776 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3777 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3778 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3785 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3790 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3793 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3794 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3796 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3797 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3801 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3807 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3816 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3823 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3824 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3826 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3830 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3833 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3834 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3835 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3839 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3842 things if CDPATH is set.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3846 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3852 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3855 seems to make sense for the transition.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3862 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3870 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3871 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3875 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3878 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3882 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3885 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3886 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3887 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3888 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3898 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3901 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3902 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3903 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3904 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3905 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3906 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3907 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3908 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3909 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3910 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3915 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3918 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3919 * README: mention doc/v2
3920 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3921 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3925 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3927 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3928 be using this script RSN.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3932 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3935 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3936 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3937 more than 1 init script.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3941 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3944 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3948 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Changed perl version detection.
3951 * Changed call to find.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3955 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3958 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3960 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3965 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Really include dh_installpam.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3971 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3974 * Wrote man page for same.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3978 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3981 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3982 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3987 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3994 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3997 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3998 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3999 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4000 x bit was being set!
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4004 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4007 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4008 well. (Closes: 38900)
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4012 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4015 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4016 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4020 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4026 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4033 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4039 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4042 help from Julian Gilbey.
4043 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4044 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4045 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4046 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4047 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4048 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4049 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4054 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4060 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4067 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4073 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4079 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4082 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4086 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4089 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4093 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4096 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4100 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4106 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4109 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4113 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4119 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4125 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4128 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4129 may be deleted. (#35845)
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4133 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Various man page enhancements.
4136 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4141 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4144 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4145 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4149 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4152 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4153 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4154 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4156 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4157 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4162 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4168 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Another very minor typo fix.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4174 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Very minor typo fix.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4180 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4183 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4184 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4188 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4194 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4197 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4198 variables properly (#34850).
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4202 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4208 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4211 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4212 (automatically generated by build process).
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4216 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4218 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4222 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4225 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4226 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4228 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4232 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4235 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4239 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * README: minor typo fix.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4245 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4248 leave it at that. :-)
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4252 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4258 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4264 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4267 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4268 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4269 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4273 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4276 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4280 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4283 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4287 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4290 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4291 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4292 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4293 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4297 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4300 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4301 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4302 Craig Small for spotting this.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4306 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4309 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4310 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4314 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4320 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4323 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4327 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4329 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4330 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4331 working on the last version of debhelper.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4335 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4338 being made. (#23255)
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4342 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4348 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4351 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4355 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4358 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4359 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4360 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4361 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4365 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4368 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4369 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4370 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4371 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4373 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4374 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4376 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4381 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4387 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4393 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4396 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4397 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4398 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4399 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4400 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4401 suidregister actually supports it.
4402 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4403 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4407 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4414 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4417 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4418 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4419 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4420 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4421 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4422 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4423 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4427 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4429 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4430 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4434 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4437 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4438 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4439 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4440 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4444 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4447 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4449 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4450 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4451 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4452 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4453 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4454 effect, either. (#30118)
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4458 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4464 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4467 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4468 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4472 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4478 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4481 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4482 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4483 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4484 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4488 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4491 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4492 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4496 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4502 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4505 packages, painlessly.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4509 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4515 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4521 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4527 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * The perl conversion is complete.
4531 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4533 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4534 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4535 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4540 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4543 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4544 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4545 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4549 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4552 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4554 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4556 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4557 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4561 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4564 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4565 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4569 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4575 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4578 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4579 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4580 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4581 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4582 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4586 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4589 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4590 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4591 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4592 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4596 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4599 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4603 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4606 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4607 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4608 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4609 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4610 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4611 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4612 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4613 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4617 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4623 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4626 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4627 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4628 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4633 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4636 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4640 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4643 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4647 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4650 sections of shared libraries.
4651 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4652 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4653 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4654 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4655 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4656 things you don't want them to.
4657 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4658 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4662 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4665 shared libraries. (#26414)
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4671 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4672 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4673 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4674 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4678 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4682 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4684 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4685 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4686 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4687 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4688 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4695 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4699 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4702 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4703 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4708 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4711 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4715 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4718 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4719 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4720 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4721 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4722 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4724 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4725 remove debian/files properly.
4726 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4727 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4728 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4729 * Removed bogus menu file.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4733 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4736 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4740 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4743 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4744 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4745 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4746 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4747 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4748 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4752 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4755 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4756 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4757 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4758 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4762 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4769 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4772 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4773 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4775 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4776 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4777 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4778 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4779 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4780 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4784 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4787 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4788 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4789 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4790 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4791 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4792 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4793 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4794 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4795 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4796 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4797 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4798 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4799 passed any switches.
4800 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4804 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4807 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4808 at all for a long while.
4809 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4810 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4811 large chunks in the process.
4812 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4813 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4814 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4819 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4822 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4824 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4832 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4833 that don't always have the same files in them.
4834 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4835 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4836 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4840 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4844 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4845 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4846 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4847 updating 27 man pages.
4848 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4849 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4850 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4851 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4852 programs act on. (#25247)
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4856 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4860 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4861 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4862 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4863 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4864 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4865 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4870 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4877 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4884 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4887 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4891 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4897 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4900 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4901 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4902 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4903 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4904 package by accident.
4905 * Is version 1.0 next?
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4909 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4912 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4913 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4917 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4920 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4921 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4922 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4923 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4924 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4926 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4931 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4934 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4935 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4939 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4942 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4946 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4949 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4950 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4955 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4961 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4964 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4965 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4970 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4976 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4979 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4980 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4981 past week. Thanks, guys!
4983 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4984 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4985 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4986 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4987 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4988 would do in the same situation.
4989 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4990 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4992 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4994 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4995 permissions changed.
4996 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4997 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4998 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4999 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5000 files are treated identically.
5001 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5002 * Minor man page fixes.
5003 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5004 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5005 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5009 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5012 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5013 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5014 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5015 use -X multiple times, too.
5016 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5017 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5021 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5024 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5025 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5029 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5032 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5036 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5039 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5040 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5041 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5042 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5043 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5044 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5045 shape if you're starting a new package.
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5049 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5052 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5056 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5059 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5060 because of missing symlinks.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5064 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5070 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5073 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5074 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5075 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5076 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5077 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5079 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5080 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5084 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5086 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5087 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5088 to be changed after the fact :-)
5089 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5093 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5095 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5096 no version string after the -V.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5100 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5102 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5103 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5108 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5111 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5115 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5118 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5119 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5120 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5121 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5122 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5123 I always welcome corrections!
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5127 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5133 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5136 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5137 * Documented this new switch.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5141 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5144 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5145 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5146 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5147 no packages use the old behavior.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5151 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5154 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5155 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5159 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5162 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5166 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5172 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5175 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5179 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5182 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5183 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5184 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5188 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5194 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5197 into the source package by accident.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5201 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5204 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5205 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5206 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5207 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5208 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5209 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5214 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5218 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5219 inspired to implement some of it.
5220 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5224 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5227 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5231 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5234 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5235 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5239 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5242 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5243 have done.) (#17598)
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5247 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5253 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5259 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5262 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5266 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5269 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5270 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5274 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5277 argument processor in perl.
5278 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5279 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5280 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5281 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5285 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5288 type directories. (#16933)
5289 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5290 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5291 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5292 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5293 are supported. (#16935)
5294 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5299 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5302 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5306 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5310 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5311 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5312 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5313 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5314 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5315 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5319 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5322 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5323 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5325 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5326 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5327 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5328 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5329 a given package, or -i or -a.
5330 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5331 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5332 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5333 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5334 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5335 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5336 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5337 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5338 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5340 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5341 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5342 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5346 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5349 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5350 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5355 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5358 does not have a section.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5362 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5365 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5366 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5367 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5371 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * Fixed typo #16215.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5377 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5380 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5381 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5382 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5383 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5384 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5389 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5392 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5393 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5394 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5399 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5405 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5411 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5414 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5415 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5416 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5417 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5418 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5419 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5423 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5429 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5432 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5436 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5439 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5440 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5441 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5445 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5448 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5452 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5458 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5461 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5465 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5468 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5472 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5478 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5481 postinst, postrm, etc.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5485 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5491 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5494 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5495 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5496 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5497 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5498 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5502 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5505 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5506 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5510 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5513 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5517 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5520 installing package files into.
5521 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5526 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5530 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5534 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5540 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5543 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5547 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5550 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5551 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5552 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5553 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5557 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5559 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5560 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5561 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5562 multiple binary packages.
5563 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5564 should rebuild them with this version.
5565 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5569 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5572 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5576 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5579 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5583 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5586 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5587 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5588 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5589 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5590 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5591 debian/README.debian.
5592 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5593 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5594 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5595 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5596 in a few situations.)
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5600 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5606 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5612 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5615 * Fixed several man pages.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5619 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5622 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5623 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5627 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5630 is ready for general use.
5631 * Added man pages for all commands.
5632 * Multiple binary package support.
5633 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5634 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5635 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5637 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5638 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5639 auto-installed as parameters.
5640 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5642 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5645 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5646 the package build directory it is to act on.
5647 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5648 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5649 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5653 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5655 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5656 ready to replace debstd.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400