1 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
4 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
5 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
6 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
7 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
8 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
9 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
10 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
11 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
12 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
16 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
19 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
20 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
21 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
22 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
24 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
25 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
26 breaking backwards compatability.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
30 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
37 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
43 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Convert copyright file to new format.
46 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
50 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
53 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
57 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
60 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
61 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
62 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
63 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
64 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
65 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
66 logging by dh_listpackages.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
70 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
73 run and there are no packages of that type.
74 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
75 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
76 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
77 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
79 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
80 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
84 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
86 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
87 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
88 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
92 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
95 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
96 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
98 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
99 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
100 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
101 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
102 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
103 planned but not yet implemented.)
104 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
105 if the Makefile has such a target.
106 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
107 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
108 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
109 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
110 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
111 but not yet implemented.)
112 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
113 recommended default, especially when using dh.
114 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
115 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
116 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
118 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
120 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
121 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
123 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
124 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
125 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
130 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
133 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
134 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
138 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
140 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
141 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
142 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
146 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
152 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
158 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
161 just those installed by the program.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
165 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
168 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
169 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
173 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
176 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
177 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
178 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
179 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
183 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
186 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
187 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
191 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
194 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
195 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
199 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
202 with policy. Closes: #461392
203 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
204 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
205 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
206 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
207 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
211 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
214 Closes: #460340, #460351
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
218 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
221 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
222 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
223 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
224 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
228 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
231 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
232 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
233 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
234 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
235 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
236 package build directory won't work.
237 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
238 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
239 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
240 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
241 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
242 mode. Closes: #459426
243 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
248 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
251 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
255 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
259 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
260 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
261 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
262 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
263 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
264 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
268 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
271 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
272 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
273 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
274 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
278 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
281 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
282 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
283 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
284 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
285 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
289 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
292 debian/package.triggers files.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
296 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
299 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
303 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
306 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
307 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
308 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
309 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
314 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
317 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
321 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
324 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
325 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
327 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
332 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
336 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
337 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
338 * Typo. Closes: #441272
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
342 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
349 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
356 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
359 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
361 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
362 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
363 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
365 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
366 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
367 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
371 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
374 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
375 * Update urls to web page.
376 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
378 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
379 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
383 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
386 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
387 - typo in alternatives call
388 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
390 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
391 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
395 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
398 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
403 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
409 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
415 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
418 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
420 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
421 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
422 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
423 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
424 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
425 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
426 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
427 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
428 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
429 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
430 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
434 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
437 package install. Closes: #415717
438 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
439 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
440 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
441 script and then remove the python files.
442 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
443 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
444 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
445 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
446 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
447 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
448 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
449 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
450 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
451 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
452 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
453 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
454 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
458 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Correct typo in french translation
464 * Typo. Closes: #400571
465 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
467 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
469 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
470 Closes: #406921, #381940
471 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
473 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
474 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
475 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
476 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
477 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
478 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
479 specified). Closes: #381851
480 * Misc minor changes.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
484 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
491 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
492 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
496 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
502 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
503 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
506 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
507 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
509 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
510 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
511 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
512 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
516 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
519 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
522 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
526 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
532 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
538 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
539 a difficult situation.
540 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
541 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
542 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
543 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
544 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
545 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
546 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
547 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
548 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
549 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
553 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Non-maintainer upload.
556 * Update of dh_python
557 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
558 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
560 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
561 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
562 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
563 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
564 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
566 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
568 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Non-maintainer upload.
571 * Update of dh_python
572 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
573 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
574 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
575 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
576 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
577 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
578 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
579 specific python version. Closes: #373853
580 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
581 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
583 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
584 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
585 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
586 the not too-distant future).
587 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
588 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
589 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
590 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
591 thus made the build fail.
593 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
595 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Non-maintainer upload.
598 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
600 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
602 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
605 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
606 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
607 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
608 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
609 package. Closes: #301424
610 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
611 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
612 fonts). Closes: #372686
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
616 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
622 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
623 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
624 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
625 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
626 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
627 above, but already depends on that.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
631 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
634 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
635 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
636 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
637 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
638 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
642 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
648 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
654 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
655 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
659 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
662 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
666 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
670 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
671 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
672 new version (0.24.1).
673 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
674 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
677 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
678 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
679 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
680 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
681 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
682 new directory on their own.
683 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
684 * Fix broken directory removal code.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
688 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
691 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
692 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
693 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
694 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
698 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
701 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
702 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
703 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
704 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
705 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
709 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
715 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Typo. Closes: #358904
719 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
720 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
724 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
725 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
729 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
731 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
732 || exit 0 instead of the intended
734 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
735 ignored. Closes: #337664
737 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
742 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
748 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
753 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
754 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
755 the dh_installdebconf manpage
756 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
757 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
758 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
759 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
763 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
766 version. Closes: #350607
767 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
768 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
769 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
770 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
774 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
777 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
778 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
779 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
783 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
790 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Minor bug fix from last release.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
796 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
799 language guessing. Closes: #193221
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
803 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
806 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
807 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
808 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
809 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
810 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
811 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
815 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
818 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
819 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
824 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
827 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
831 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
834 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
838 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
841 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
842 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
843 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
844 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
845 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
846 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
850 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
853 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
854 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
855 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
856 link. Closes: #346405
857 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
860 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
861 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
862 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
863 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
864 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
865 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
869 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
876 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
878 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
882 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
885 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
889 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
892 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
897 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
901 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
902 installed. Closes: #342033
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
906 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
909 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
910 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
911 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
916 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
922 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
928 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
932 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
933 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
934 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
938 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
941 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
946 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
953 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
959 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
961 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
962 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
963 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
964 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
965 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
966 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
967 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
968 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
970 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
974 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
977 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
978 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
982 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
985 in standard man dirs.
986 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
990 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
996 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
999 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1004 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1011 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1018 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1021 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1022 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1026 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1029 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1030 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1031 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1033 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1035 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1041 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1047 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1050 mode. Closes: #324161
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1054 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1057 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1058 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1059 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1060 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1065 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1068 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1069 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1070 is necesary for sanity.
1071 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1072 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1077 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1079 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1080 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1084 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1087 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1091 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1097 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1100 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1101 released, so use at your own risk.
1102 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1103 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1105 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1106 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1107 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1108 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1109 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1110 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1111 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1112 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1113 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1114 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1115 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1116 including twice per config file line now..
1117 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1118 and simplfy the rules file.
1119 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1120 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1121 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1123 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1124 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1128 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1131 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1135 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1138 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1142 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1145 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1149 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1152 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1153 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1154 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1155 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1156 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1157 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1161 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1164 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1165 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1166 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1171 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1174 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1175 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1180 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1183 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1184 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1185 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1190 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1193 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1194 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1195 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1199 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1205 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1212 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1215 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1216 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1217 unknown. Closes: #282924
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1221 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1228 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Spanish man page updates.
1231 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1236 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1242 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1245 * dh_desktop: reindent
1246 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1247 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1251 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1257 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1259 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1263 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1265 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1269 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1272 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1273 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1277 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1289 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1299 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1306 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1307 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1308 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1309 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1310 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1311 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1313 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1314 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1315 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1316 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1317 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1318 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1319 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1320 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1321 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1322 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1323 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1324 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1325 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1326 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1327 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1328 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1339 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1342 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1346 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1349 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1353 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1356 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1360 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1363 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1367 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1373 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1379 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1385 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1388 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1389 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1390 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1394 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1397 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1401 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1404 but occasionally right and necessary.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1408 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1411 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1412 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1413 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1414 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1415 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1419 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1422 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1424 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1425 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1426 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1427 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1428 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1429 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1430 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1431 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1432 postinst scripts for udebs.
1433 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1437 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1440 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1442 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1443 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1447 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1453 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1460 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1467 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1470 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1474 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1477 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1481 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1484 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1487 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1488 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1492 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1498 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1501 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1505 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1508 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1509 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1510 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1512 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1514 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1515 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1516 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1520 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1523 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1528 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1531 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1532 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1533 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1538 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1544 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1550 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1553 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1554 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1555 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1556 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1557 associated -dbg packages.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1561 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1564 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1568 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1571 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1575 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1578 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1585 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1590 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1593 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1597 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1600 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1608 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1616 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1617 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1618 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1619 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1620 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1621 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1622 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1623 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1624 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1625 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1629 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1632 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1637 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1640 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1641 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1645 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1648 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1649 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1657 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1664 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1668 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1671 out section number. Closes: #204731
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1688 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1694 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1697 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1698 removal. Closes: #204286
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1705 renaming. Closes: #203548
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1712 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1713 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1723 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1729 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1735 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1738 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1739 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1740 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1747 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1748 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1768 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1773 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1776 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1780 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1783 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1785 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1786 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1790 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1793 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1801 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1813 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1820 it break hard links (see #188663).
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1827 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1837 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1841 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1842 debconf-mergetemplates
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1846 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1849 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1856 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1860 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1863 * Update debhelper(1).
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1867 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1870 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1871 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1872 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1873 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1874 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1878 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1881 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1882 the shell. Closes: #178524
1883 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1887 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1890 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1894 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1897 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1901 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1904 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1905 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1906 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1907 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1912 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1915 files from installation.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1919 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1922 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1923 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1927 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1930 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1934 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1937 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1941 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1947 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1953 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1957 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1958 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1960 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1964 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1967 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1968 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1969 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1970 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1974 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1977 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1981 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1984 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1985 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1989 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1993 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2008 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2009 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2010 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2018 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2019 practice. Closes: #163303
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2039 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2041 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2042 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2043 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2044 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2045 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2052 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2073 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2106 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2107 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2108 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2109 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2130 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2131 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2138 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2139 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2140 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2141 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2142 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2149 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2151 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2159 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2166 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2167 right thing. Closes: #150644
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Stupid, evil typo.
2174 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2188 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2189 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2203 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2210 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2211 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2219 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2232 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2233 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2237 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Removing perl warning message.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2252 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2253 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2254 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2255 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2256 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2257 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2258 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2259 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2279 debconf-mergetemplate.
2280 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2281 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2288 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2289 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2290 dh_install, which ...
2291 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2292 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2293 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2294 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2295 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2296 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2297 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2298 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2299 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2300 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2301 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2302 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2303 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2304 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2305 other minor changes.
2306 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2307 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2308 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2309 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2310 course there's -X ..)
2311 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2312 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2313 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2315 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2316 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2317 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2318 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2319 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2324 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2330 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2333 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2337 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2343 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2349 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2355 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2361 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2364 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2365 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2366 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2367 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2369 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2370 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2374 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2380 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2383 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2387 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2390 upset. Closes: #131322
2392 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2394 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2397 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2398 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2399 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2400 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2401 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2402 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2403 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2404 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2405 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2406 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2407 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2408 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2409 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2410 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2411 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2413 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2417 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2420 - Better indenting of generated code.
2421 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2425 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2429 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2430 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2431 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2432 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2433 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2434 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2435 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2439 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2442 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2446 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2449 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2450 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2451 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2452 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2453 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2454 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2455 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2456 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2457 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2458 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2459 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2460 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2461 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2462 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2463 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2468 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2474 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2477 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2478 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2482 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2485 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2486 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2490 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2496 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2499 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2500 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2501 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2502 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2503 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2508 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2514 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2517 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2521 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2524 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2529 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2535 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2538 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2542 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2548 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2552 Also some indentation fixes.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2556 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2559 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2560 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2561 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2562 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2563 Closes: #106514, #85520
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2567 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2573 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2579 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2585 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2591 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2597 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2600 change it in debhelper v4..
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2604 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2610 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2613 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2617 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2620 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2624 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2630 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2633 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2634 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2635 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2636 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2637 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2638 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2639 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2640 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2641 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2642 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2643 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2644 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2648 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2651 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2655 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2662 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2665 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2666 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2667 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2668 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2669 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2670 program those options go to. So, for example,
2671 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2672 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2673 something complex. Closes: #89311
2674 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2678 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2681 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2682 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2683 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2687 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2690 through loop. Closes: #98598
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2694 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Missing semi-colon.
2697 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2698 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2702 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2705 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2706 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2707 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2711 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2714 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2715 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2719 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2722 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2726 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2729 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2730 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2734 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2737 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2738 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2739 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2743 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2746 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2747 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2748 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2752 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2755 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2759 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2765 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2771 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2777 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2783 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2786 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2790 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2793 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2794 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2795 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2796 followed. Closes: #85483
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2800 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2802 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2803 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2804 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2808 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2811 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2812 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2813 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2814 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2815 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2816 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2817 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2818 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2819 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2820 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2821 Closes: #88464, #77743
2822 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2823 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2824 us to deal with that gracefully.
2825 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2827 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2828 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2829 a while, Closes: #51225
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2833 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2839 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2842 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2846 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2850 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2855 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2858 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2859 don't make packlist files.
2860 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2861 debhelper coding standards.
2862 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2863 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2867 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2870 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2874 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2877 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2878 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2879 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2880 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2881 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2882 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2883 but is mildly deprecated.
2884 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2885 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2886 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2887 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2888 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2889 switching to statoverrides..
2890 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2891 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2892 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2893 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2894 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2895 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2897 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2898 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2899 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2900 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2901 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2902 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2903 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2904 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2905 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2907 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2908 variable names, pod man pages).
2909 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2910 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2911 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2912 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2913 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2914 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2915 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2919 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2925 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2932 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2935 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2939 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2941 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2942 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2943 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2947 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2949 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2950 they were previously ignored.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2954 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2956 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2957 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2961 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2963 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2964 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2965 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2969 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2971 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2975 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2977 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2978 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2982 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2984 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2985 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2986 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2987 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2988 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2989 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2990 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2991 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2992 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2993 it is an obsolete program.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2997 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2999 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3003 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3007 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3009 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3013 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3015 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3017 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3019 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3023 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3029 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * typo: Closes, #78567
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3035 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3041 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3047 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3050 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3051 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3052 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3053 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3054 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3058 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3061 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3066 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3069 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3070 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3071 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3072 backwards-compatability.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3076 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3079 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3080 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3081 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3082 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3083 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3084 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3086 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3087 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3088 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3090 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3092 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3093 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3094 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3095 should now be raised to severity important..
3096 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3097 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3101 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3104 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3109 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3115 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3121 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3127 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3134 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3137 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3138 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3139 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3140 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3144 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3150 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3153 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3154 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3155 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3156 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3157 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3158 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3166 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3170 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3176 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3179 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3184 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3187 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3188 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3189 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3190 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3194 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3198 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3201 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3204 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3205 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3208 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3210 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3211 the TODO entry about it.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3215 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3222 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3225 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3226 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3230 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3233 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3234 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3235 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3236 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3240 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3246 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3253 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3256 (this appears to be logal).
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3260 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3263 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3264 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3265 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3266 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3270 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3276 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3279 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3280 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3281 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3282 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3286 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3292 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3295 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3299 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3306 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3309 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3310 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3311 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3316 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3323 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3329 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3332 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3333 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3334 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3335 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3336 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3337 notice until v2 is complete.
3338 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3339 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3340 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3341 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3342 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3343 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3345 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3346 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3347 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3348 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3352 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3358 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3365 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3368 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3372 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3379 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3382 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3383 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3384 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3385 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3390 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3393 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3394 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3395 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3400 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3403 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3404 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3408 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3411 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3415 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3418 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3422 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3429 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3432 depend on the build and install targets.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3436 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3439 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3443 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3450 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3456 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3462 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3465 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3466 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3467 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3468 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3469 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3470 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3472 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3473 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3474 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3475 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3476 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3477 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3478 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3482 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3488 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3494 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3497 right place. Closes: #55065
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3501 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3508 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3511 * Copyright date updates.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3518 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3523 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3529 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3536 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3542 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3548 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3554 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3557 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3558 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3559 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3560 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3561 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3562 bits until all files have been registered.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3566 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_installmanpages:
3569 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3570 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3571 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3572 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3573 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3574 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3575 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3576 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3577 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3578 otherwise change the result at all.
3580 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3581 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3582 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3583 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3584 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3589 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3595 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3598 act on files that don't exist.
3599 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3600 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3601 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3603 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3604 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3605 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3606 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3610 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3616 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3622 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3625 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3629 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3632 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3634 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3635 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3636 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3640 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3643 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3644 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3645 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3646 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3647 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3648 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3649 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3651 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3653 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3657 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3664 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3670 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3679 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3683 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3698 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3699 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3700 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3701 I made some changes, though:
3702 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3703 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3704 that is a clear violation of policy.
3705 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3706 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3707 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3708 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3709 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3710 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3711 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3712 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3713 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3715 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3728 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3735 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3736 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3747 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3754 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3757 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3758 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3759 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3760 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3761 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3762 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3763 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3773 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3777 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3778 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3791 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3795 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3798 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3799 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3805 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3814 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3821 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3822 for the dependancies to be generated.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3826 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3829 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3833 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3836 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3837 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3838 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3846 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3847 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3851 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3863 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3866 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3876 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3879 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3880 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3881 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3882 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3883 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3884 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3885 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3886 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3887 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3888 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3889 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3890 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3897 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3898 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3900 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3901 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3902 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3903 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3904 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3905 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3907 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3908 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3912 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3915 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3929 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3934 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3937 for building debhelper.
3938 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3952 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3959 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3960 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3961 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3962 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3963 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3964 it's always available.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3971 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3972 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3973 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3980 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3981 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3994 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4007 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4008 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4009 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4013 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4016 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4021 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4024 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4025 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4027 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4028 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4032 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4047 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4054 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4055 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4057 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4064 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4065 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4066 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4073 things if CDPATH is set.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4086 seems to make sense for the transition.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4093 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4101 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4102 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4109 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4116 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4117 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4118 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4119 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4129 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4132 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4133 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4134 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4135 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4136 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4137 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4138 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4139 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4140 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4141 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4146 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4149 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4150 * README: mention doc/v2
4151 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4152 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4156 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4158 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4159 be using this script RSN.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4163 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4166 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4167 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4168 more than 1 init script.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4172 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4175 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4179 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Changed perl version detection.
4182 * Changed call to find.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4186 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4189 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4191 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4196 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Really include dh_installpam.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4202 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4205 * Wrote man page for same.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4209 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4212 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4213 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4218 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4225 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4228 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4229 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4230 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4231 x bit was being set!
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4235 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4238 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4239 well. (Closes: 38900)
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4243 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4246 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4247 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4251 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4257 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4264 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4270 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4273 help from Julian Gilbey.
4274 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4275 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4276 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4277 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4278 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4279 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4280 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4285 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4291 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4298 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4304 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4310 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4313 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4317 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4320 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4324 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4327 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4331 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4337 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4340 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4344 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4350 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4356 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4359 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4360 may be deleted. (#35845)
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4364 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Various man page enhancements.
4367 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4372 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4375 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4376 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4380 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4383 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4384 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4385 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4387 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4388 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4393 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4399 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Another very minor typo fix.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4405 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Very minor typo fix.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4411 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4414 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4415 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4419 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4425 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4428 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4429 variables properly (#34850).
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4433 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4439 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4442 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4443 (automatically generated by build process).
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4447 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4449 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4453 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4456 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4457 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4459 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4463 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4466 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4470 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * README: minor typo fix.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4476 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4479 leave it at that. :-)
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4483 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4489 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4495 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4498 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4499 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4500 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4504 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4507 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4511 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4514 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4518 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4521 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4522 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4523 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4524 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4528 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4531 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4532 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4533 Craig Small for spotting this.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4537 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4540 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4541 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4545 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4551 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4554 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4558 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4560 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4561 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4562 working on the last version of debhelper.
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4566 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4569 being made. (#23255)
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4573 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4579 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4582 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4586 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4589 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4590 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4591 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4592 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4596 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4599 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4600 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4601 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4602 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4604 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4605 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4607 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4612 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4618 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4624 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4627 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4628 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4629 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4630 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4631 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4632 suidregister actually supports it.
4633 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4634 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4638 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4645 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4648 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4649 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4650 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4651 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4652 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4653 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4654 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4658 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4660 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4661 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4665 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4668 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4669 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4670 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4671 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4675 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4678 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4680 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4681 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4682 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4683 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4684 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4685 effect, either. (#30118)
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4689 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4695 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4698 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4699 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4703 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4712 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4713 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4714 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4715 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4719 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4722 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4723 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4727 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4733 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4736 packages, painlessly.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4740 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4746 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4758 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * The perl conversion is complete.
4762 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4764 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4765 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4766 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4771 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4774 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4775 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4776 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4780 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4783 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4785 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4787 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4788 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4795 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4796 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4800 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4806 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4809 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4810 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4811 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4812 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4813 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4820 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4821 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4822 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4823 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4827 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4830 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4834 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4837 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4838 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4839 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4840 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4841 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4842 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4843 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4844 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4848 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4854 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4857 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4858 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4859 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4864 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4867 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4871 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4874 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4878 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4881 sections of shared libraries.
4882 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4883 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4884 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4885 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4886 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4887 things you don't want them to.
4888 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4889 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4893 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4896 shared libraries. (#26414)
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4902 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4903 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4904 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4905 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4909 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4913 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4915 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4916 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4917 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4918 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4919 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4923 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4926 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4933 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4934 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4939 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4942 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4946 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4949 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4950 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4951 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4952 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4953 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4955 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4956 remove debian/files properly.
4957 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4958 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4959 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4960 * Removed bogus menu file.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4967 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4974 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4975 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4976 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4977 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4978 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4979 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4983 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4986 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4987 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4988 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4989 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4993 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5003 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5004 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5006 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5007 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5008 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5009 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5010 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5011 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5015 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5018 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5019 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5020 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5021 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5022 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5023 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5024 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5025 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5026 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5027 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5028 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5029 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5030 passed any switches.
5031 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5038 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5039 at all for a long while.
5040 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5041 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5042 large chunks in the process.
5043 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5044 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5045 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5050 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5053 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5055 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5063 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5064 that don't always have the same files in them.
5065 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5066 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5067 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5071 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5075 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5076 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5077 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5078 updating 27 man pages.
5079 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5080 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5081 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5082 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5083 programs act on. (#25247)
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5091 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5092 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5093 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5094 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5095 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5096 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5101 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5108 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5115 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5118 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5122 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5128 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5131 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5132 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5133 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5134 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5135 package by accident.
5136 * Is version 1.0 next?
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5140 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5143 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5144 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5148 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5151 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5152 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5153 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5154 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5155 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5157 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5162 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5165 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5166 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5170 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5173 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5177 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5180 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5181 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5186 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5192 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5195 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5196 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5201 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5207 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5210 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5211 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5212 past week. Thanks, guys!
5214 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5215 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5216 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5217 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5218 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5219 would do in the same situation.
5220 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5221 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5223 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5225 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5226 permissions changed.
5227 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5228 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5229 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5230 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5231 files are treated identically.
5232 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5233 * Minor man page fixes.
5234 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5235 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5236 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5240 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5243 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5244 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5245 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5246 use -X multiple times, too.
5247 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5248 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5252 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5255 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5256 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5260 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5263 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5267 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5270 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5271 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5272 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5273 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5274 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5275 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5276 shape if you're starting a new package.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5280 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5283 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5287 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5290 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5291 because of missing symlinks.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5295 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5301 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5304 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5305 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5306 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5307 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5308 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5310 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5311 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5315 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5317 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5318 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5319 to be changed after the fact :-)
5320 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5324 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5326 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5327 no version string after the -V.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5331 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5333 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5334 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5339 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5342 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5346 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5349 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5350 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5351 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5352 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5353 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5354 I always welcome corrections!
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5358 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5364 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5367 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5368 * Documented this new switch.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5372 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5375 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5376 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5377 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5378 no packages use the old behavior.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5382 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5385 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5386 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5390 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5393 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5397 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5403 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5406 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5410 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5413 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5414 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5415 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5419 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5425 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5428 into the source package by accident.
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5432 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5435 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5436 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5437 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5438 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5439 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5440 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5445 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5449 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5450 inspired to implement some of it.
5451 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5455 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5458 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5462 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5465 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5466 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5470 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5473 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5474 have done.) (#17598)
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5478 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5484 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5490 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5493 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5497 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5500 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5501 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5505 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5508 argument processor in perl.
5509 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5510 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5511 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5512 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5516 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5519 type directories. (#16933)
5520 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5521 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5522 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5523 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5524 are supported. (#16935)
5525 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5530 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5533 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5537 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5541 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5542 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5543 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5544 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5545 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5546 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5550 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5553 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5554 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5556 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5557 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5558 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5559 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5560 a given package, or -i or -a.
5561 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5562 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5563 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5564 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5565 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5566 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5567 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5568 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5569 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5571 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5572 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5573 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5577 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5580 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5581 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5586 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5589 does not have a section.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5593 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5596 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5597 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5598 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5602 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Fixed typo #16215.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5608 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5611 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5612 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5613 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5614 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5615 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5620 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5623 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5624 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5625 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5630 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5636 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5642 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5645 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5646 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5647 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5648 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5649 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5650 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5654 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5660 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5663 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5667 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5670 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5671 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5672 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5676 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5679 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5683 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5689 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5692 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5696 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5699 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5703 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5709 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5712 postinst, postrm, etc.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5716 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5722 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5725 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5726 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5727 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5728 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5729 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5733 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5736 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5737 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5741 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5744 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5748 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5751 installing package files into.
5752 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5757 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5761 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5765 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5771 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5774 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5778 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5781 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5782 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5783 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5784 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5788 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5790 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5791 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5792 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5793 multiple binary packages.
5794 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5795 should rebuild them with this version.
5796 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5800 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5803 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5807 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5810 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5814 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5817 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5818 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5819 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5820 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5821 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5822 debian/README.debian.
5823 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5824 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5825 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5826 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5827 in a few situations.)
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5831 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5837 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5843 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5846 * Fixed several man pages.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5850 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5853 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5854 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5858 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5861 is ready for general use.
5862 * Added man pages for all commands.
5863 * Multiple binary package support.
5864 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5865 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5866 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5868 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5869 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5870 auto-installed as parameters.
5871 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5873 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5876 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5877 the package build directory it is to act on.
5878 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5879 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5880 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5884 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5886 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5887 ready to replace debstd.
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400