1 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
4 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
5 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
6 created by using `python' first during build and install.
8 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
11 -- Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:26:13 +0200
13 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
15 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
19 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
21 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
22 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
26 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
28 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
32 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
34 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
38 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
40 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
41 contributed by Modestas Vainius
42 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
43 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
44 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
45 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
46 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
47 that support it. Closes: #480577
48 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
49 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
50 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
52 - Adds support for cmake.
53 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
54 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
56 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
58 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
59 that use them. The options are:
60 --sourcedir, --destdir
61 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
62 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
63 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
64 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
65 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
69 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
75 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
78 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
79 default. Closes: #537140
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
83 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
86 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
87 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
91 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
94 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
98 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
101 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
105 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
108 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
110 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
111 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
112 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
116 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
119 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
120 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
121 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
125 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
128 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
129 warning or deprecation message.
130 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
131 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
132 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
133 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
134 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
135 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
136 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
137 Closes: #534639, #357434
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
141 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
147 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
150 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
151 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
152 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
153 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
155 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
156 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
157 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
161 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
167 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
174 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
177 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
181 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
185 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
186 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
188 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
189 file support. Closes: #494914
190 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
194 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
197 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
198 parameters. Closes: #527256
199 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
200 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
201 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
205 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
209 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
210 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
211 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
215 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
218 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
219 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
220 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
224 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
227 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
228 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
230 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
231 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
232 by triggers). Closes: #521181
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
236 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
240 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
244 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
247 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
248 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
249 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
250 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
255 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
261 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
264 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
265 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
266 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
267 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
268 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
270 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
271 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
272 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
273 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
274 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
275 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
279 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
282 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
283 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
284 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
285 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
286 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
288 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
292 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
294 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
298 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
300 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
301 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
302 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
303 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
304 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
305 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
306 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
307 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
308 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
309 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
310 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
314 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
316 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
317 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
319 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
320 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
321 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
322 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
324 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
325 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
329 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
331 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
332 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
333 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
334 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
335 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
336 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
337 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
339 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
340 that uses them. Affected options are:
341 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
342 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
343 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
344 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
345 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
346 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
347 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
348 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
349 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
350 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
351 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
352 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
356 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
363 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
369 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
371 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
372 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
374 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
375 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
376 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
377 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
378 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
380 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
382 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
383 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
384 rules (see bug #509756).
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
388 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
394 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
395 * Typo. Closes: #493062
396 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
397 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
401 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
404 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
405 empty files. Closes: #490937
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
409 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
415 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
422 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
425 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
426 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
427 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
428 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
433 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
435 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
436 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
437 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
438 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
442 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
445 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
446 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
447 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
448 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
449 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
453 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
460 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
462 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
463 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
464 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
465 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
466 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
467 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
468 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
469 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
470 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
471 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
475 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
478 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
479 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
480 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
481 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
483 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
484 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
485 breaking backwards compatability.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
489 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
492 message in perl 5.10.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
496 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
502 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Convert copyright file to new format.
505 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
509 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
512 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
516 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
519 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
520 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
521 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
522 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
523 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
524 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
525 logging by dh_listpackages.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
529 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
532 run and there are no packages of that type.
533 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
534 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
535 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
536 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
538 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
539 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
543 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
545 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
546 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
547 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
551 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
554 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
555 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
557 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
558 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
559 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
560 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
561 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
562 planned but not yet implemented.)
563 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
564 if the Makefile has such a target.
565 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
566 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
567 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
568 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
569 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
570 but not yet implemented.)
571 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
572 recommended default, especially when using dh.
573 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
574 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
575 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
577 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
579 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
580 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
582 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
583 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
584 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
589 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
592 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
593 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
597 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
599 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
600 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
601 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
605 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
611 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
617 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
620 just those installed by the program.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
624 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
627 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
628 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
632 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
635 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
636 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
637 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
638 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
642 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
645 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
646 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
650 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
653 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
654 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
658 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
661 with policy. Closes: #461392
662 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
663 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
664 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
665 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
666 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
670 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
673 Closes: #460340, #460351
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
677 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
680 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
681 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
682 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
683 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
687 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
690 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
691 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
692 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
693 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
694 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
695 package build directory won't work.
696 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
697 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
698 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
699 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
700 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
701 mode. Closes: #459426
702 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
707 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
710 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
714 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
718 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
719 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
720 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
721 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
722 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
723 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
727 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
730 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
731 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
732 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
733 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
737 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
740 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
741 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
742 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
743 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
744 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
748 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
751 debian/package.triggers files.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
755 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
758 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
762 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
765 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
766 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
767 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
768 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
773 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
776 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
780 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
783 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
784 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
786 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
791 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
795 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
796 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
797 * Typo. Closes: #441272
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
801 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
808 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
815 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
818 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
820 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
821 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
822 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
824 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
825 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
826 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
830 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
833 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
834 * Update urls to web page.
835 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
837 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
838 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
842 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
845 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
846 - typo in alternatives call
847 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
849 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
850 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
854 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
857 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
862 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
868 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
874 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
877 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
879 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
880 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
881 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
882 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
883 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
884 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
885 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
886 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
887 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
888 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
889 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
893 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
896 package install. Closes: #415717
897 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
898 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
899 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
900 script and then remove the python files.
901 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
902 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
903 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
904 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
905 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
906 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
907 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
908 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
909 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
910 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
911 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
912 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
913 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
917 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Correct typo in french translation
923 * Typo. Closes: #400571
924 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
926 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
928 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
929 Closes: #406921, #381940
930 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
932 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
933 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
934 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
935 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
936 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
937 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
938 specified). Closes: #381851
939 * Misc minor changes.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
943 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
950 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
951 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
955 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
961 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
962 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
965 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
966 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
968 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
969 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
970 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
971 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
975 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
978 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
981 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
985 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
991 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
997 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
998 a difficult situation.
999 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1000 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1001 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1002 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1003 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1004 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1005 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1006 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1007 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1008 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1012 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Non-maintainer upload.
1015 * Update of dh_python
1016 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1017 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1019 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1020 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1021 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1022 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1023 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1025 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1027 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Non-maintainer upload.
1030 * Update of dh_python
1031 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1032 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1033 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1034 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1035 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1036 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1037 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1038 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1039 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1040 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1042 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1043 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1044 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1045 the not too-distant future).
1046 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1047 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1048 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1049 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1050 thus made the build fail.
1052 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1054 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Non-maintainer upload.
1057 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1059 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1061 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1064 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1065 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1066 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1067 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1068 package. Closes: #301424
1069 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1070 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1071 fonts). Closes: #372686
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1075 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1081 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1082 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1083 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1084 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1085 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1086 above, but already depends on that.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1090 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1093 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1094 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1095 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1096 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1097 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1101 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1107 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1113 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1114 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1118 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1121 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1125 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1129 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1130 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1131 new version (0.24.1).
1132 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1133 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1136 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1137 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1138 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1139 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1140 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1141 new directory on their own.
1142 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1143 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1147 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1150 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1151 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1152 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1153 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1157 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1160 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1161 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1162 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1163 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1164 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1168 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1174 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1178 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1179 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1183 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1184 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1190 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1191 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1193 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1194 ignored. Closes: #337664
1196 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1201 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1207 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1212 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1213 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1214 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1215 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1216 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1217 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1218 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1222 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1225 version. Closes: #350607
1226 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1227 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1228 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1229 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1233 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1236 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1237 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1238 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1242 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1249 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1255 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1258 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1262 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1265 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1266 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1267 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1268 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1269 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1270 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1274 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1277 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1278 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1283 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1286 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1290 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1293 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1297 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1300 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1301 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1302 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1303 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1304 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1305 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1309 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1313 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1314 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1315 link. Closes: #346405
1316 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1318 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1319 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1320 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1321 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1322 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1323 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1324 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1328 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1335 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1341 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1344 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1348 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1351 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1356 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1360 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1361 installed. Closes: #342033
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1365 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1368 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1369 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1370 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1375 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1381 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1387 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1391 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1392 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1393 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1397 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1400 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1405 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1412 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1418 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1421 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1422 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1423 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1424 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1425 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1426 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1427 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1429 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1433 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1436 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1437 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1444 in standard man dirs.
1445 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1449 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1455 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1458 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1463 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1477 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1480 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1481 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1488 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1489 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1490 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1492 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1494 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1509 mode. Closes: #324161
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1516 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1517 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1518 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1519 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1524 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1527 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1528 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1529 is necesary for sanity.
1530 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1531 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1536 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1538 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1539 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1543 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1546 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1550 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1556 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1559 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1560 released, so use at your own risk.
1561 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1562 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1564 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1565 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1566 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1567 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1568 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1569 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1570 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1571 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1572 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1573 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1574 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1575 including twice per config file line now..
1576 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1577 and simplfy the rules file.
1578 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1579 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1580 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1582 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1583 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1587 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1590 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1597 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1604 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1611 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1612 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1613 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1614 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1615 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1616 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1620 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1623 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1624 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1625 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1630 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1633 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1634 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1639 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1642 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1643 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1644 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1649 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1652 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1653 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1654 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1658 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1664 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1671 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1674 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1675 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1676 unknown. Closes: #282924
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1680 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1687 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Spanish man page updates.
1690 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1695 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1701 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1704 * dh_desktop: reindent
1705 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1706 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1710 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1718 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1724 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1728 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1731 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1732 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1736 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1742 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1758 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1765 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1766 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1767 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1768 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1769 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1770 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1772 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1773 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1774 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1775 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1776 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1777 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1778 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1779 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1780 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1781 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1782 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1783 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1784 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1785 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1786 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1787 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1801 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1805 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1808 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1815 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1822 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1832 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1844 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1847 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1848 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1849 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1856 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1860 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1863 but occasionally right and necessary.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1867 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1870 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1871 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1872 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1873 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1874 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1878 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1881 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1883 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1884 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1885 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1886 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1887 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1888 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1889 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1890 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1891 postinst scripts for udebs.
1892 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1896 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1899 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1901 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1902 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1906 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1912 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1919 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1926 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1929 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1933 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1936 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1940 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1943 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1946 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1947 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1951 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1957 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1960 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1964 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1967 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1968 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1969 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1971 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1973 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1974 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1975 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1979 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1982 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1987 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1990 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1991 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1992 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1997 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2003 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2012 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2013 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2014 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2015 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2016 associated -dbg packages.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2023 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2030 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2037 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2044 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2052 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2059 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2067 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2075 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2076 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2077 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2078 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2079 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2080 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2081 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2082 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2083 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2084 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2091 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2099 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2100 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2107 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2108 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2113 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2116 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2123 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2130 out section number. Closes: #204731
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2156 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2157 removal. Closes: #204286
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2164 renaming. Closes: #203548
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2171 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2172 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2188 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2194 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2197 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2198 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2199 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2206 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2207 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2227 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2235 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2242 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2244 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2245 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2252 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2257 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2260 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2272 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2279 it break hard links (see #188663).
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2286 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2296 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2300 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2301 debconf-mergetemplates
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2305 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2308 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2315 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2322 * Update debhelper(1).
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2326 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2329 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2330 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2331 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2332 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2333 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2337 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2340 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2341 the shell. Closes: #178524
2342 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2346 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2349 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2353 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2356 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2360 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2363 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2364 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2365 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2366 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2371 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2374 files from installation.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2378 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2381 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2382 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2386 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2389 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2393 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2396 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2400 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2406 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2416 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2417 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2419 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2423 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2426 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2427 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2428 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2429 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2433 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2436 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2440 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2443 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2444 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2448 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2452 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2467 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2468 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2469 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2477 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2478 practice. Closes: #163303
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2498 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2500 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2501 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2502 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2503 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2504 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2511 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2532 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2565 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2566 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2567 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2568 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2573 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2589 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2590 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2597 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2598 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2599 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2600 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2601 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2608 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2610 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2618 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2625 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2626 right thing. Closes: #150644
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Stupid, evil typo.
2633 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2647 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2648 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2653 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2662 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2666 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2669 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2670 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2678 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2688 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2691 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2692 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2702 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Removing perl warning message.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2711 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2712 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2713 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2714 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2715 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2716 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2717 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2718 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2722 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2738 debconf-mergetemplate.
2739 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2740 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2744 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2747 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2748 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2749 dh_install, which ...
2750 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2751 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2752 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2753 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2754 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2755 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2756 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2757 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2758 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2759 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2760 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2761 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2762 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2763 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2764 other minor changes.
2765 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2766 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2767 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2768 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2769 course there's -X ..)
2770 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2771 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2772 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2774 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2775 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2776 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2777 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2778 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2783 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2789 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2792 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2796 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2802 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2808 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2814 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2820 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2823 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2824 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2825 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2826 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2828 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2829 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2833 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2839 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2842 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2846 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2849 upset. Closes: #131322
2851 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2853 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2856 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2857 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2858 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2859 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2860 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2861 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2862 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2863 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2864 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2865 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2866 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2867 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2868 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2869 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2870 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2872 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2876 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2879 - Better indenting of generated code.
2880 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2884 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2888 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2889 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2890 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2891 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2892 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2893 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2894 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2898 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2901 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2905 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2908 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2909 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2910 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2911 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2912 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2913 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2914 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2915 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2916 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2917 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2918 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2919 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2920 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2921 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2922 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2927 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2933 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2936 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2937 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2941 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2944 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2945 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2949 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2955 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2958 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2959 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2960 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2961 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2962 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2967 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2973 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2976 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2980 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2983 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2988 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2994 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2997 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3001 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3007 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3011 Also some indentation fixes.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3015 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3018 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3019 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3020 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3021 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3022 Closes: #106514, #85520
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3026 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3032 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3038 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3044 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3050 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3056 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3059 change it in debhelper v4..
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3063 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3069 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3072 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3076 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3079 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3083 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3089 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3092 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3093 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3094 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3095 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3096 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3097 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3098 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3099 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3100 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3101 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3102 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3103 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3107 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3110 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3114 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3121 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3124 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3125 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3126 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3127 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3128 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3129 program those options go to. So, for example,
3130 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3131 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3132 something complex. Closes: #89311
3133 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3137 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3140 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3141 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3142 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3146 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3149 through loop. Closes: #98598
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3153 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Missing semi-colon.
3156 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3157 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3161 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3164 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3165 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3166 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3170 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3173 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3174 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3178 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3181 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3185 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3188 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3189 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3193 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3196 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3197 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3198 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3202 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3205 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3206 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3207 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3211 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3214 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3218 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3224 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3230 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3236 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3242 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3245 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3249 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3252 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3253 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3254 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3255 followed. Closes: #85483
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3259 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3261 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3262 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3263 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3267 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3270 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3271 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3272 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3273 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3274 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3275 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3276 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3277 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3278 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3279 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3280 Closes: #88464, #77743
3281 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3282 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3283 us to deal with that gracefully.
3284 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3286 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3287 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3288 a while, Closes: #51225
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3292 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3298 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3301 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3305 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3309 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3314 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3317 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3318 don't make packlist files.
3319 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3320 debhelper coding standards.
3321 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3322 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3326 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3329 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3333 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3336 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3337 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3338 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3339 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3340 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3341 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3342 but is mildly deprecated.
3343 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3344 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3345 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3346 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3347 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3348 switching to statoverrides..
3349 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3350 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3351 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3352 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3353 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3354 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3356 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3357 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3358 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3359 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3360 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3361 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3362 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3363 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3364 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3366 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3367 variable names, pod man pages).
3368 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3369 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3370 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3371 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3372 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3373 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3374 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3378 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3384 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3391 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3394 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3398 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3400 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3401 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3402 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3406 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3408 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3409 they were previously ignored.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3413 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3415 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3416 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3422 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3423 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3424 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3428 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3430 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3434 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3436 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3437 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3441 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3443 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3444 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3445 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3446 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3447 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3448 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3449 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3450 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3451 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3452 it is an obsolete program.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3456 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3458 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3462 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3466 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3468 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3472 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3474 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3476 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3478 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3482 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3488 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * typo: Closes, #78567
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3494 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3500 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3506 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3509 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3510 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3511 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3512 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3513 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3517 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3520 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3525 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3528 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3529 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3530 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3531 backwards-compatability.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3535 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3538 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3539 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3540 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3541 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3542 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3543 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3545 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3546 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3547 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3549 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3551 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3552 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3553 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3554 should now be raised to severity important..
3555 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3556 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3560 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3563 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3568 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3574 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3580 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3586 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3593 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3596 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3597 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3598 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3599 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3603 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3609 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3612 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3613 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3614 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3615 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3616 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3617 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3622 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3625 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3629 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3638 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3643 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3646 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3647 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3648 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3649 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3657 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3660 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3663 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3664 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3667 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3669 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3670 the TODO entry about it.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3681 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3684 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3685 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3692 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3693 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3694 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3695 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3699 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3715 (this appears to be logal).
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3722 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3723 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3724 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3725 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3729 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3738 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3739 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3740 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3741 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3745 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3754 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3758 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3765 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3768 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3769 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3770 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3791 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3792 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3793 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3794 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3795 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3796 notice until v2 is complete.
3797 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3798 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3799 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3800 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3801 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3802 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3804 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3805 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3806 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3807 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3811 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3824 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3827 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3838 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3841 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3842 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3843 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3844 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3849 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3852 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3853 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3854 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3862 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3863 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3870 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3874 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3877 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3881 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3891 depend on the build and install targets.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3895 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3898 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3902 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3924 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3925 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3926 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3927 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3928 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3929 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3931 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3932 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3933 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3934 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3935 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3936 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3937 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3947 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3953 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3956 right place. Closes: #55065
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3967 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3970 * Copyright date updates.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3977 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3982 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3988 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4016 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4017 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4018 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4019 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4020 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4021 bits until all files have been registered.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4025 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_installmanpages:
4028 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4029 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4030 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4031 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4032 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4033 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4034 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4035 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4036 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4037 otherwise change the result at all.
4039 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4040 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4041 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4042 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4043 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4054 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4057 act on files that don't exist.
4058 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4059 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4060 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4062 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4063 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4064 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4065 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4081 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4084 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4088 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4091 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4093 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4094 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4095 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4099 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4102 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4103 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4104 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4105 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4106 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4107 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4108 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4110 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4112 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4116 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4123 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4129 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4138 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4157 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4158 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4159 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4160 I made some changes, though:
4161 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4162 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4163 that is a clear violation of policy.
4164 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4165 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4166 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4167 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4168 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4169 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4170 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4171 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4172 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4174 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4187 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4194 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4195 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4216 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4217 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4218 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4219 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4220 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4221 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4222 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4236 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4237 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4250 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4257 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4258 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4264 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4273 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4280 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4281 for the dependancies to be generated.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4288 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4295 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4296 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4297 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4302 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4305 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4306 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4325 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4329 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4338 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4339 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4340 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4341 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4342 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4343 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4344 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4345 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4346 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4347 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4348 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4349 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4356 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4357 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4359 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4360 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4361 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4362 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4363 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4364 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4366 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4367 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4374 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4378 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4385 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4388 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4396 for building debhelper.
4397 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4411 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4415 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4418 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4419 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4420 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4421 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4422 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4423 it's always available.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4427 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4430 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4431 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4432 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4436 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4439 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4440 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4453 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4457 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4466 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4467 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4468 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4472 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4475 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4480 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4483 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4484 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4486 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4487 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4506 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4513 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4514 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4516 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4523 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4524 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4525 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4532 things if CDPATH is set.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4545 seems to make sense for the transition.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4549 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4552 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4560 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4561 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4565 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4568 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4575 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4576 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4577 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4578 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4591 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4592 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4593 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4594 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4595 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4596 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4597 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4598 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4599 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4600 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4605 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4608 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4609 * README: mention doc/v2
4610 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4611 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4615 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4617 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4618 be using this script RSN.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4622 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4625 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4626 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4627 more than 1 init script.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4631 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4634 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4638 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Changed perl version detection.
4641 * Changed call to find.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4645 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4648 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4650 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4655 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Really include dh_installpam.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4661 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4664 * Wrote man page for same.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4668 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4671 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4672 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4677 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4684 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4687 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4688 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4689 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4690 x bit was being set!
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4694 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4697 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4698 well. (Closes: 38900)
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4702 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4705 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4706 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4710 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4723 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4729 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4732 help from Julian Gilbey.
4733 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4734 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4735 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4736 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4737 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4738 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4739 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4744 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4750 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4757 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4763 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4769 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4772 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4776 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4779 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4783 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4786 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4790 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4796 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4799 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4803 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4809 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4815 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4818 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4819 may be deleted. (#35845)
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4823 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Various man page enhancements.
4826 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4831 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4834 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4835 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4839 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4842 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4843 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4844 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4846 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4847 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4852 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4858 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Another very minor typo fix.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * Very minor typo fix.
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4870 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4873 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4874 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4878 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4884 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4887 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4888 variables properly (#34850).
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4892 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4898 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4901 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4902 (automatically generated by build process).
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4906 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4908 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4912 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4915 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4916 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4918 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4922 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4925 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4929 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * README: minor typo fix.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4935 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4938 leave it at that. :-)
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4942 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4948 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4954 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4957 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4958 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4959 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4966 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4970 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4973 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4977 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4980 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4981 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4982 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4983 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4987 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4990 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4991 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4992 Craig Small for spotting this.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4996 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4999 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5000 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5004 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5010 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5013 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5017 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5019 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5020 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5021 working on the last version of debhelper.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5028 being made. (#23255)
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5038 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5041 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5045 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5048 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5049 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5050 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5051 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5055 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5058 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5059 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5060 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5061 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5063 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5064 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5066 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5071 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5077 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5083 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5086 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5087 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5088 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5089 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5090 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5091 suidregister actually supports it.
5092 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5093 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5097 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5104 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5107 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5108 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5109 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5110 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5111 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5112 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5113 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5117 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5119 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5120 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5124 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5127 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5128 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5129 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5130 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5134 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5137 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5139 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5140 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5141 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5142 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5143 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5144 effect, either. (#30118)
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5148 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5154 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5157 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5158 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5162 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5168 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5171 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5172 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5173 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5174 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5178 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5181 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5182 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5192 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5195 packages, painlessly.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5205 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5211 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * The perl conversion is complete.
5221 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5223 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5224 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5225 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5230 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5233 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5234 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5235 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5242 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5244 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5246 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5247 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5251 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5254 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5255 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5259 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5265 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5268 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5269 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5270 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5271 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5272 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5276 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5279 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5280 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5281 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5282 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5286 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5289 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5293 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5296 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5297 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5298 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5299 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5300 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5301 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5302 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5303 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5307 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5313 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5316 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5317 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5318 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5323 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5326 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5330 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5333 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5337 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5340 sections of shared libraries.
5341 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5342 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5343 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5344 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5345 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5346 things you don't want them to.
5347 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5348 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5352 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5355 shared libraries. (#26414)
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5359 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5361 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5362 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5363 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5364 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5372 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5374 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5375 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5376 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5377 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5378 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5385 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5392 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5393 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5398 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5401 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5405 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5408 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5409 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5410 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5411 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5412 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5414 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5415 remove debian/files properly.
5416 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5417 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5418 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5419 * Removed bogus menu file.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5423 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5426 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5430 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5433 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5434 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5435 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5436 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5437 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5438 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5442 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5445 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5446 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5447 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5448 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5452 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5459 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5462 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5463 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5465 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5466 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5467 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5468 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5469 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5470 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5474 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5477 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5478 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5479 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5480 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5481 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5482 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5483 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5484 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5485 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5486 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5487 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5488 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5489 passed any switches.
5490 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5494 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5497 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5498 at all for a long while.
5499 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5500 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5501 large chunks in the process.
5502 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5503 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5504 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5512 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5514 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5519 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5522 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5523 that don't always have the same files in them.
5524 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5525 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5526 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5534 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5535 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5536 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5537 updating 27 man pages.
5538 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5539 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5540 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5541 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5542 programs act on. (#25247)
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5550 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5551 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5552 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5553 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5554 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5555 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5560 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5567 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5574 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5577 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5581 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5587 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5590 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5591 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5592 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5593 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5594 package by accident.
5595 * Is version 1.0 next?
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5599 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5602 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5603 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5607 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5610 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5611 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5612 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5613 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5614 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5616 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5621 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5624 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5625 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5629 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5632 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5636 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5639 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5640 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5645 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5651 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5654 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5655 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5660 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5666 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5669 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5670 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5671 past week. Thanks, guys!
5673 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5674 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5675 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5676 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5677 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5678 would do in the same situation.
5679 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5680 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5682 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5684 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5685 permissions changed.
5686 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5687 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5688 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5689 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5690 files are treated identically.
5691 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5692 * Minor man page fixes.
5693 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5694 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5695 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5699 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5702 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5703 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5704 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5705 use -X multiple times, too.
5706 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5707 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5711 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5714 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5715 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5719 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5722 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5726 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5729 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5730 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5731 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5732 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5733 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5734 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5735 shape if you're starting a new package.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5739 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5742 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5746 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5749 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5750 because of missing symlinks.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5754 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5760 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5763 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5764 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5765 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5766 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5767 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5769 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5770 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5774 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5776 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5777 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5778 to be changed after the fact :-)
5779 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5783 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5785 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5786 no version string after the -V.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5790 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5792 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5793 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5798 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5801 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5805 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5808 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5809 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5810 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5811 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5812 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5813 I always welcome corrections!
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5817 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5823 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5826 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5827 * Documented this new switch.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5831 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5834 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5835 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5836 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5837 no packages use the old behavior.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5841 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5844 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5845 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5849 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5852 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5856 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5862 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5865 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5869 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5872 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5873 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5874 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5878 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5884 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5887 into the source package by accident.
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5891 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5894 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5895 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5896 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5897 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5898 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5899 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5904 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5908 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5909 inspired to implement some of it.
5910 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5914 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5917 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5921 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5924 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5925 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5929 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5932 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5933 have done.) (#17598)
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5937 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5943 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5949 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5952 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5956 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5959 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5960 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5964 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5967 argument processor in perl.
5968 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5969 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5970 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5971 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5975 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5978 type directories. (#16933)
5979 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5980 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5981 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5982 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5983 are supported. (#16935)
5984 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5989 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5992 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5996 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6000 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6001 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6002 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6003 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6004 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6005 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6009 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6012 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6013 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6015 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6016 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6017 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6018 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6019 a given package, or -i or -a.
6020 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6021 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6022 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6023 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6024 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6025 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6026 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6027 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6028 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6030 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6031 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6032 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6036 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6039 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6040 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6045 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6048 does not have a section.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6052 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6055 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6056 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6057 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6061 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * Fixed typo #16215.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6067 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6070 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6071 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6072 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6073 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6074 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6079 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6082 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6083 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6084 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6089 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6095 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6101 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6104 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6105 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6106 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6107 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6108 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6109 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6113 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6119 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6122 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6126 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6129 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6130 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6131 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6135 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6137 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6138 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6142 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6148 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6151 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6155 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6158 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6162 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6168 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6171 postinst, postrm, etc.
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6175 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6181 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6184 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6185 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6186 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6187 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6188 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6192 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6195 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6196 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6200 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6203 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6207 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6210 installing package files into.
6211 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6216 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6220 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6224 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6230 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6233 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6237 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6240 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6241 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6242 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6243 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6247 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6249 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6250 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6251 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6252 multiple binary packages.
6253 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6254 should rebuild them with this version.
6255 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6259 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6262 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6266 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6269 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6273 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6276 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6277 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6278 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6279 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6280 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6281 debian/README.debian.
6282 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6283 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6284 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6285 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6286 in a few situations.)
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6290 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6296 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6302 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6305 * Fixed several man pages.
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6309 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6312 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6313 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6317 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6320 is ready for general use.
6321 * Added man pages for all commands.
6322 * Multiple binary package support.
6323 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6324 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6325 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6327 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6328 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6329 auto-installed as parameters.
6330 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6332 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6335 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6336 the package build directory it is to act on.
6337 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6338 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6339 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6343 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6345 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6346 ready to replace debstd.
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400