1 debhelper (7.0.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
4 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
5 * Record debhelper commands that successfully finish in a per-package log
7 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
8 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
9 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
10 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
11 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
12 planned but not yet implemented.)
13 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
14 if the Makefile has such a target.
15 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
16 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
17 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
18 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
19 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
20 but not yet implemented.)
21 * New v7 mode, which only has two changes from v6, and is the new
23 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
24 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
25 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
27 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
29 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
30 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
31 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
33 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:54:20 -0400
38 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
41 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
42 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
46 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
48 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
49 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
50 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
54 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
60 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
66 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
69 just those installed by the program.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
73 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
76 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
77 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
81 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
84 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
85 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
86 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
87 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
91 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
94 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
95 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
99 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
102 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
103 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
107 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
110 with policy. Closes: #461392
111 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
112 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
113 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
114 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
115 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
119 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
122 Closes: #460340, #460351
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
126 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
129 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
130 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
131 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
132 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
136 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
139 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
140 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
141 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
142 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
143 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
144 package build directory won't work.
145 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
146 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
147 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
148 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
149 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
150 mode. Closes: #459426
151 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
156 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
159 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
163 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
167 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
168 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
169 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
170 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
171 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
172 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
176 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
179 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
180 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
181 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
182 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
186 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
189 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
190 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
191 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
192 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
193 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
197 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
200 debian/package.triggers files.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
204 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
207 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
211 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
214 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
215 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
216 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
217 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
222 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
225 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
229 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
232 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
233 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
235 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
240 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
244 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
245 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
246 * Typo. Closes: #441272
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
250 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
257 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
264 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
267 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
269 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
270 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
271 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
273 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
274 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
275 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
279 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
282 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
283 * Update urls to web page.
284 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
286 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
287 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
291 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
294 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
295 - typo in alternatives call
296 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
298 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
299 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
303 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
306 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
311 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
317 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
323 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
326 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
328 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
329 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
330 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
331 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
332 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
333 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
334 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
335 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
336 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
337 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
338 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
342 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
345 package install. Closes: #415717
346 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
347 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
348 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
349 script and then remove the python files.
350 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
351 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
352 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
353 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
354 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
355 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
356 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
357 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
358 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
359 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
360 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
361 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
362 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
366 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Correct typo in french translation
372 * Typo. Closes: #400571
373 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
375 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
377 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
378 Closes: #406921, #381940
379 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
381 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
382 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
383 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
384 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
385 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
386 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
387 specified). Closes: #381851
388 * Misc minor changes.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
392 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
399 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
400 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
404 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
410 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
411 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
414 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
415 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
417 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
418 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
419 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
420 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
424 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
427 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
430 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
434 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
440 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
446 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
447 a difficult situation.
448 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
449 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
450 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
451 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
452 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
453 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
454 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
455 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
456 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
457 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
461 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Non-maintainer upload.
464 * Update of dh_python
465 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
466 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
468 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
469 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
470 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
471 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
472 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
474 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
476 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Non-maintainer upload.
479 * Update of dh_python
480 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
481 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
482 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
483 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
484 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
485 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
486 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
487 specific python version. Closes: #373853
488 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
489 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
491 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
492 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
493 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
494 the not too-distant future).
495 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
496 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
497 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
498 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
499 thus made the build fail.
501 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
503 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Non-maintainer upload.
506 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
508 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
510 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
513 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
514 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
515 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
516 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
517 package. Closes: #301424
518 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
519 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
520 fonts). Closes: #372686
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
524 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
530 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
531 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
532 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
533 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
534 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
535 above, but already depends on that.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
539 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
542 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
543 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
544 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
545 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
546 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
550 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
556 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
562 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
563 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
567 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
570 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
574 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
578 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
579 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
580 new version (0.24.1).
581 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
582 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
585 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
586 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
587 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
588 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
589 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
590 new directory on their own.
591 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
592 * Fix broken directory removal code.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
596 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
599 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
600 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
601 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
602 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
606 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
609 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
610 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
611 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
612 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
613 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
617 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
623 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Typo. Closes: #358904
627 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
628 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
632 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
633 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
637 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
639 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
640 || exit 0 instead of the intended
642 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
643 ignored. Closes: #337664
645 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
650 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
656 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
661 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
662 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
663 the dh_installdebconf manpage
664 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
665 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
666 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
667 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
671 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
674 version. Closes: #350607
675 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
676 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
677 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
678 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
682 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
685 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
686 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
687 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
691 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
698 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Minor bug fix from last release.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
704 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
707 language guessing. Closes: #193221
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
711 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
714 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
715 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
716 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
717 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
718 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
719 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
723 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
726 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
727 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
732 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
735 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
739 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
742 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
746 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
749 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
750 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
751 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
752 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
753 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
754 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
758 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
761 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
762 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
763 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
764 link. Closes: #346405
765 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
768 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
769 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
770 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
771 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
772 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
773 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
777 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
784 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
786 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
790 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
793 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
797 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
800 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
805 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
809 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
810 installed. Closes: #342033
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
814 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
817 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
818 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
819 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
824 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
830 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
836 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
840 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
841 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
842 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
846 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
849 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
854 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
861 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
867 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
869 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
870 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
871 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
872 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
873 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
874 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
875 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
876 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
878 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
882 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
885 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
886 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
890 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
893 in standard man dirs.
894 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
898 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
904 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
907 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
912 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
919 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
926 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
929 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
930 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
934 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
936 * NMU with maintainer approval.
937 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
938 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
939 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
941 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
943 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
949 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
955 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
958 mode. Closes: #324161
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
962 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
965 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
966 behavior change. Closes: #249815
967 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
968 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
973 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
976 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
977 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
978 is necesary for sanity.
979 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
980 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
985 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
987 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
988 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
992 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
995 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
999 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1005 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1008 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1009 released, so use at your own risk.
1010 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1011 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1013 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1014 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1015 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1016 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1017 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1018 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1019 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1020 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1021 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1022 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1023 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1024 including twice per config file line now..
1025 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1026 and simplfy the rules file.
1027 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1028 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1029 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1031 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1032 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1036 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1039 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1043 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1046 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1050 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1053 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1057 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1060 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1061 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1062 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1063 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1064 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1065 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1069 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1072 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1073 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1074 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1079 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1082 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1083 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1088 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1091 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1092 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1093 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1098 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1101 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1102 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1103 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1107 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1113 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1120 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1123 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1124 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1125 unknown. Closes: #282924
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1129 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1136 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Spanish man page updates.
1139 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1144 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1150 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1153 * dh_desktop: reindent
1154 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1155 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1159 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1165 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1167 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1171 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1173 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1177 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1180 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1181 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1185 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1191 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1197 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1204 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1207 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1211 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1214 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1215 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1216 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1217 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1218 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1219 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1221 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1222 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1223 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1224 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1225 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1226 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1227 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1228 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1229 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1230 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1231 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1232 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1233 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1234 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1235 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1236 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1240 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1247 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1250 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1254 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1257 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1261 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1264 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1268 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1271 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1275 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1281 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1287 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1293 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1296 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1297 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1298 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1302 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1305 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1309 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1312 but occasionally right and necessary.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1316 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1319 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1320 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1321 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1322 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1323 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1327 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1330 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1332 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1333 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1334 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1335 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1336 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1337 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1338 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1339 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1340 postinst scripts for udebs.
1341 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1345 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1348 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1350 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1351 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1355 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1361 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1368 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1375 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1378 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1382 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1385 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1389 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1392 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1395 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1396 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1400 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1406 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1409 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1413 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1416 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1417 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1418 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1420 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1422 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1423 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1424 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1428 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1431 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1436 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1439 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1440 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1441 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1446 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1452 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1458 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1461 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1462 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1463 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1464 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1465 associated -dbg packages.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1469 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1472 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1476 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1479 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1486 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1490 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1493 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1498 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1501 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1505 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1508 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1516 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1520 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1524 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1525 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1526 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1527 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1528 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1529 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1530 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1531 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1532 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1533 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1537 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1540 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1548 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1549 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1553 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1556 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1557 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1565 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1569 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1572 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1579 out section number. Closes: #204731
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1583 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1590 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1596 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1605 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1606 removal. Closes: #204286
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1610 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1613 renaming. Closes: #203548
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1617 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1620 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1621 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1625 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1631 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1637 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1643 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1646 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1647 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1648 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1655 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1656 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1666 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1673 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1676 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1684 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1688 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1691 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1693 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1694 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1698 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1701 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1706 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1709 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1713 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1719 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1721 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1728 it break hard links (see #188663).
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1732 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1735 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1745 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1749 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1750 debconf-mergetemplates
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1754 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1757 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1761 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1764 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1768 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1771 * Update debhelper(1).
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1775 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1778 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1779 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1780 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1781 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1782 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1786 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1789 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1790 the shell. Closes: #178524
1791 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1795 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1798 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1802 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1805 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1809 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1812 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1813 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1814 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1815 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1820 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1823 files from installation.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1827 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1830 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1831 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1835 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1838 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1842 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1845 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1849 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1855 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1861 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1865 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1866 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1868 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1872 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1875 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1876 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1877 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1878 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1882 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1885 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1889 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1892 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1893 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1897 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1901 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1916 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1917 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1918 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1926 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1927 practice. Closes: #163303
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1947 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1949 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1950 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1951 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1952 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1953 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1960 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1965 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1971 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1981 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2014 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2015 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2016 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2017 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2038 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2039 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2046 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2047 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2048 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2049 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2050 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2057 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2059 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2067 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2074 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2075 right thing. Closes: #150644
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Stupid, evil typo.
2082 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2096 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2097 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2111 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2118 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2119 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2127 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2140 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2141 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Removing perl warning message.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2160 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2161 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2162 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2163 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2164 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2165 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2166 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2167 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2187 debconf-mergetemplate.
2188 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2189 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2196 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2197 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2198 dh_install, which ...
2199 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2200 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2201 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2202 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2203 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2204 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2205 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2206 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2207 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2208 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2209 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2210 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2211 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2212 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2213 other minor changes.
2214 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2215 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2216 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2217 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2218 course there's -X ..)
2219 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2220 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2221 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2223 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2224 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2225 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2226 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2227 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2232 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2238 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2241 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2245 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2251 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2257 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2263 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2269 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2272 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2273 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2274 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2275 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2277 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2278 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2282 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2288 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2291 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2295 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2298 upset. Closes: #131322
2300 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2302 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2305 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2306 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2307 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2308 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2309 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2310 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2311 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2312 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2313 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2314 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2315 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2316 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2317 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2318 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2319 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2321 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2325 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2328 - Better indenting of generated code.
2329 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2333 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2337 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2338 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2339 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2340 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2341 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2342 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2343 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2347 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2350 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2354 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2357 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2358 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2359 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2360 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2361 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2362 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2363 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2364 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2365 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2366 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2367 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2368 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2369 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2370 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2371 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2376 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2382 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2385 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2386 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2390 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2393 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2394 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2398 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2404 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2407 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2408 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2409 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2410 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2411 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2416 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2422 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2425 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2429 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2432 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2437 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2443 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2446 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2450 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2456 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2460 Also some indentation fixes.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2464 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2467 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2468 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2469 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2470 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2471 Closes: #106514, #85520
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2475 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2481 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2487 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2493 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2499 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2505 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2508 change it in debhelper v4..
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2512 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2518 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2521 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2525 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2528 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2532 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2538 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2541 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2542 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2543 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2544 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2545 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2546 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2547 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2548 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2549 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2550 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2551 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2552 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2556 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2559 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2563 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2570 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2573 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2574 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2575 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2576 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2577 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2578 program those options go to. So, for example,
2579 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2580 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2581 something complex. Closes: #89311
2582 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2586 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2589 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2590 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2591 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2595 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2598 through loop. Closes: #98598
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2602 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Missing semi-colon.
2605 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2606 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2610 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2613 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2614 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2615 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2619 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2622 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2623 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2627 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2630 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2634 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2637 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2638 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2642 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2645 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2646 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2647 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2651 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2654 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2655 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2656 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2660 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2663 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2667 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2673 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2679 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2685 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2691 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2694 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2698 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2701 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2702 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2703 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2704 followed. Closes: #85483
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2708 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2710 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2711 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2712 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2716 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2719 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2720 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2721 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2722 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2723 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2724 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2725 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2726 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2727 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2728 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2729 Closes: #88464, #77743
2730 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2731 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2732 us to deal with that gracefully.
2733 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2735 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2736 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2737 a while, Closes: #51225
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2741 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2747 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2750 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2754 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2758 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2763 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2766 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2767 don't make packlist files.
2768 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2769 debhelper coding standards.
2770 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2771 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2775 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2778 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2782 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2785 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2786 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2787 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2788 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2789 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2790 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2791 but is mildly deprecated.
2792 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2793 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2794 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2795 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2796 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2797 switching to statoverrides..
2798 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2799 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2800 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2801 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2802 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2803 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2805 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2806 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2807 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2808 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2809 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2810 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2811 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2812 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2813 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2815 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2816 variable names, pod man pages).
2817 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2818 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2819 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2820 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2821 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2822 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2823 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2827 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2833 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2840 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2843 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2847 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2849 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2850 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2851 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2855 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2857 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2858 they were previously ignored.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2862 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2864 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2865 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2869 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2871 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2872 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2873 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2877 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2879 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2883 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2885 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2886 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2890 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2892 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2893 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2894 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2895 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2896 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2897 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2898 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2899 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2900 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2901 it is an obsolete program.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2905 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2907 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2911 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2915 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2917 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2921 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2923 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2925 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2927 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2931 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2937 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * typo: Closes, #78567
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2943 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2949 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2955 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2958 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2959 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2960 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2961 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2962 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2966 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2969 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2974 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2977 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2978 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2979 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2980 backwards-compatability.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2984 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2987 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2988 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2989 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2990 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2991 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2992 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2994 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2995 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2996 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2998 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3000 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3001 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3002 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3003 should now be raised to severity important..
3004 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3005 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3009 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3012 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3017 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3023 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3029 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3035 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3042 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3045 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3046 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3047 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3048 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3052 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3058 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3061 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3062 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3063 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3064 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3065 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3066 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3071 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3074 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3078 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3084 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3087 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3092 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3095 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3096 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3097 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3098 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3102 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3106 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3109 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3112 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3113 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3116 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3118 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3119 the TODO entry about it.
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3123 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3130 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3133 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3134 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3138 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3141 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3142 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3143 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3144 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3154 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3161 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3164 (this appears to be logal).
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3168 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3171 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3172 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3173 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3174 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3178 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3184 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3187 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3188 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3189 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3190 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3194 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3200 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3203 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3207 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3214 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3217 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3218 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3219 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3224 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3231 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3237 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3240 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3241 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3242 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3243 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3244 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3245 notice until v2 is complete.
3246 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3247 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3248 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3249 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3250 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3251 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3253 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3254 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3255 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3256 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3260 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3266 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3273 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3276 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3280 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3287 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3290 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3291 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3292 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3293 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3298 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3301 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3302 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3303 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3308 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3311 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3312 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3316 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3319 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3323 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3326 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3330 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3337 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3340 depend on the build and install targets.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3344 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3347 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3351 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3358 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3370 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3373 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3374 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3375 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3376 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3377 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3378 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3380 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3381 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3382 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3383 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3384 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3385 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3386 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3390 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3396 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3402 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3405 right place. Closes: #55065
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3409 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3416 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3419 * Copyright date updates.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3423 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3426 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3431 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3437 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3444 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3450 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3456 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3462 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3465 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3466 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3467 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3468 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3469 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3470 bits until all files have been registered.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3474 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_installmanpages:
3477 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3478 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3479 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3480 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3481 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3482 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3483 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3484 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3485 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3486 otherwise change the result at all.
3488 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3489 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3490 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3491 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3492 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3497 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3506 act on files that don't exist.
3507 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3508 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3509 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3511 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3512 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3513 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3514 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3518 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3524 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3530 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3533 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3537 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3540 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3542 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3543 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3544 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3548 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3551 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3552 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3553 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3554 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3555 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3556 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3557 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3559 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3561 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3565 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3572 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3578 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3587 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3591 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3606 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3607 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3608 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3609 I made some changes, though:
3610 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3611 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3612 that is a clear violation of policy.
3613 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3614 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3615 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3616 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3617 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3618 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3619 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3620 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3621 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3623 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3627 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3633 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3636 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3640 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3643 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3644 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3649 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3662 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3665 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3666 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3667 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3668 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3669 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3670 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3671 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3675 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3681 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3685 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3686 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3690 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3699 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3703 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3706 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3707 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3713 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3722 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3726 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3729 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3730 for the dependancies to be generated.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3734 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3737 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3744 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3745 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3746 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3754 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3755 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3765 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3771 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3774 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3778 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3787 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3788 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3789 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3790 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3791 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3792 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3793 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3794 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3795 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3796 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3797 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3798 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3802 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3805 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3806 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3808 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3809 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3810 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3811 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3812 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3813 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3815 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3816 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3823 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3837 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3842 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3845 for building debhelper.
3846 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3860 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3867 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3868 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3869 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3870 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3871 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3872 it's always available.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3876 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3879 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3880 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3881 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3888 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3889 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3893 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3899 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3902 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3912 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3915 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3916 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3917 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3921 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3924 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3929 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3932 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3933 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3935 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3936 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3955 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3962 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3963 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3965 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3972 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3973 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3974 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3981 things if CDPATH is set.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3994 seems to make sense for the transition.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4001 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4009 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4010 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4017 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4021 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4024 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4025 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4026 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4027 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4040 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4041 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4042 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4043 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4044 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4045 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4046 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4047 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4048 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4049 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4054 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4057 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4058 * README: mention doc/v2
4059 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4060 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4064 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4066 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4067 be using this script RSN.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4071 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4074 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4075 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4076 more than 1 init script.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4080 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4083 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4087 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Changed perl version detection.
4090 * Changed call to find.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4094 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4097 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4099 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4104 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Really include dh_installpam.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4110 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4113 * Wrote man page for same.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4117 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4120 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4121 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4126 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4133 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4136 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4137 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4138 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4139 x bit was being set!
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4143 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4146 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4147 well. (Closes: 38900)
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4151 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4154 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4155 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4159 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4165 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4172 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4178 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4181 help from Julian Gilbey.
4182 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4183 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4184 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4185 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4186 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4187 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4188 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4193 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4199 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4206 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4212 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4218 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4221 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4225 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4228 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4232 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4235 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4239 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4245 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4248 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4252 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4258 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4264 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4267 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4268 may be deleted. (#35845)
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4272 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Various man page enhancements.
4275 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4280 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4283 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4284 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4288 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4291 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4292 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4293 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4295 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4296 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4301 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4307 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Another very minor typo fix.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4313 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Very minor typo fix.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4319 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4322 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4323 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4327 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4333 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4336 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4337 variables properly (#34850).
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4341 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4347 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4350 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4351 (automatically generated by build process).
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4355 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4357 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4361 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4364 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4365 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4367 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4371 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4374 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4378 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * README: minor typo fix.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4384 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4387 leave it at that. :-)
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4391 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4397 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4403 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4406 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4407 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4408 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4412 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4415 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4419 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4422 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4426 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4429 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4430 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4431 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4432 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4436 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4439 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4440 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4441 Craig Small for spotting this.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4445 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4448 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4449 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4453 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4459 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4462 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4466 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4468 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4469 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4470 working on the last version of debhelper.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4474 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4477 being made. (#23255)
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4481 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4487 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4490 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4494 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4497 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4498 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4499 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4500 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4504 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4507 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4508 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4509 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4510 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4512 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4513 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4515 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4520 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4526 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4532 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4535 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4536 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4537 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4538 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4539 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4540 suidregister actually supports it.
4541 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4542 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4546 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4553 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4556 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4557 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4558 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4559 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4560 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4561 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4562 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4566 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4568 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4569 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4573 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4576 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4577 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4578 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4579 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4583 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4586 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4588 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4589 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4590 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4591 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4592 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4593 effect, either. (#30118)
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4597 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4603 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4606 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4607 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4611 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4617 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4620 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4621 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4622 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4623 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4627 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4630 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4631 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4635 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4641 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4644 packages, painlessly.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4648 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4654 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4660 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4666 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * The perl conversion is complete.
4670 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4672 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4673 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4674 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4679 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4682 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4683 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4684 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4688 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4691 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4693 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4695 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4696 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4703 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4704 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4708 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4714 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4717 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4718 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4719 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4720 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4721 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4725 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4728 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4729 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4730 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4731 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4735 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4738 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4742 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4745 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4746 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4747 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4748 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4749 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4750 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4751 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4752 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4756 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4762 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4765 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4766 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4767 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4772 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4775 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4779 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4782 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4786 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4789 sections of shared libraries.
4790 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4791 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4792 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4793 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4794 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4795 things you don't want them to.
4796 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4797 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4801 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4804 shared libraries. (#26414)
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4808 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4810 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4811 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4812 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4813 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4817 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4821 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4823 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4824 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4825 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4826 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4827 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4831 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4834 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4838 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4841 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4842 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4847 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4850 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4854 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4857 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4858 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4859 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4860 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4861 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4863 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4864 remove debian/files properly.
4865 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4866 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4867 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4868 * Removed bogus menu file.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4872 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4875 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4879 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4882 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4883 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4884 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4885 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4886 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4887 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4891 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4894 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4895 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4896 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4897 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4901 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4908 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4911 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4912 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4914 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4915 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4916 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4917 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4918 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4919 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4923 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4926 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4927 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4928 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4929 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4930 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4931 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4932 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4933 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4934 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4935 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4936 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4937 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4938 passed any switches.
4939 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4943 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4946 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4947 at all for a long while.
4948 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4949 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4950 large chunks in the process.
4951 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4952 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4953 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4958 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4961 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4963 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4968 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4971 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4972 that don't always have the same files in them.
4973 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4974 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4975 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4983 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4984 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4985 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4986 updating 27 man pages.
4987 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4988 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4989 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4990 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4991 programs act on. (#25247)
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4995 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4999 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5000 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5001 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5002 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5003 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5004 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5009 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5016 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5023 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5026 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5030 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5036 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5039 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5040 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5041 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5042 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5043 package by accident.
5044 * Is version 1.0 next?
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5048 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5051 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5052 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5056 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5059 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5060 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5061 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5062 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5063 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5065 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5070 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5073 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5074 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5078 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5081 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5085 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5088 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5089 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5094 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5100 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5103 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5104 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5109 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5115 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5118 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5119 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5120 past week. Thanks, guys!
5122 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5123 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5124 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5125 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5126 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5127 would do in the same situation.
5128 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5129 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5131 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5133 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5134 permissions changed.
5135 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5136 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5137 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5138 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5139 files are treated identically.
5140 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5141 * Minor man page fixes.
5142 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5143 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5144 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5148 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5151 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5152 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5153 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5154 use -X multiple times, too.
5155 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5156 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5160 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5163 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5164 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5168 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5171 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5175 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5178 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5179 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5180 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5181 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5182 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5183 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5184 shape if you're starting a new package.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5188 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5191 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5195 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5198 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5199 because of missing symlinks.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5203 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5209 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5212 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5213 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5214 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5215 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5216 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5218 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5219 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5223 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5225 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5226 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5227 to be changed after the fact :-)
5228 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5232 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5234 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5235 no version string after the -V.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5239 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5241 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5242 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5247 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5250 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5254 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5257 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5258 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5259 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5260 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5261 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5262 I always welcome corrections!
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5266 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5272 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5275 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5276 * Documented this new switch.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5280 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5283 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5284 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5285 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5286 no packages use the old behavior.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5290 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5293 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5294 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5298 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5301 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5305 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5311 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5314 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5318 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5321 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5322 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5323 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5327 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5333 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5336 into the source package by accident.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5340 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5343 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5344 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5345 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5346 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5347 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5348 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5353 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5357 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5358 inspired to implement some of it.
5359 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5363 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5366 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5370 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5373 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5374 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5378 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5381 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5382 have done.) (#17598)
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5386 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5392 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5398 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5401 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5405 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5408 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5409 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5413 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5416 argument processor in perl.
5417 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5418 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5419 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5420 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5424 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5427 type directories. (#16933)
5428 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5429 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5430 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5431 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5432 are supported. (#16935)
5433 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5438 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5441 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5445 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5449 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5450 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5451 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5452 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5453 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5454 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5458 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5461 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5462 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5464 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5465 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5466 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5467 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5468 a given package, or -i or -a.
5469 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5470 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5471 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5472 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5473 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5474 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5475 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5476 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5477 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5479 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5480 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5481 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5485 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5488 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5489 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5494 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5497 does not have a section.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5501 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5504 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5505 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5506 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5510 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * Fixed typo #16215.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5516 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5519 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5520 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5521 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5522 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5523 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5528 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5531 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5532 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5533 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5538 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5544 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5550 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5553 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5554 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5555 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5556 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5557 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5558 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5562 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5568 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5571 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5575 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5578 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5579 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5580 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5584 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5587 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5591 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5597 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5600 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5604 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5607 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5611 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5617 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5620 postinst, postrm, etc.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5624 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5630 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5633 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5634 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5635 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5636 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5637 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5641 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5644 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5645 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5649 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5652 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5656 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5659 installing package files into.
5660 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5665 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5669 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5673 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5679 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5682 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5686 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5689 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5690 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5691 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5692 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5696 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5698 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5699 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5700 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5701 multiple binary packages.
5702 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5703 should rebuild them with this version.
5704 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5708 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5711 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5715 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5718 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5722 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5725 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5726 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5727 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5728 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5729 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5730 debian/README.debian.
5731 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5732 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5733 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5734 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5735 in a few situations.)
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5739 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5745 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5751 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5754 * Fixed several man pages.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5758 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5761 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5762 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5766 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5769 is ready for general use.
5770 * Added man pages for all commands.
5771 * Multiple binary package support.
5772 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5773 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5774 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5776 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5777 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5778 auto-installed as parameters.
5779 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5781 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5784 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5785 the package build directory it is to act on.
5786 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5787 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5788 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5792 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5794 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5795 ready to replace debstd.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400